For teachers like Tom Martinez, the standard biology curriculum can feel a bit stale—teaching the same old units, recounting facts that have been passed down for decades. Yet science teachers often ...

In a series of posts I want to explore the interplay between basic biology, which looks at the natural world to learn about how life works, and synthetic biology, which studies what is not found in ...

A third of states—and many individual districts —have now adopted the Next Generation Science Standards, which emphasize scientific inquiry and link broad concepts across the science fields. But many ...

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Diagram-based learning helps students understand complex Biology concepts, improve recall, and perform better in board exams. By combining visual memory with active learning, diagrams simplify ...