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A school text in Biology for a high schools.
Learning Objectives
Acquiring proficiency to project modules and units for Biology classes in secondary Schools.
Prerequisites
At least knowledges corresponding to 6 CFU in Biology.
Teaching Methods
Lectures, seminars, laboratory experiences.
Further information
Attending lectures either in the classroom or via internet is strongly advisable. Students who can not attend classes should contact the course teachers.
Type of Assessment
The exam is based on two trials:
- a written exam on the knowledge needed to teach Biology in Secondary Schools.
- preparation of a teaching unit on a topic discussed during the course, to be agreed with the lecturers.
Course program
- Analysis of knowledges and competences to be acquired in Natural Science and in Biology by pupils during secondary schools according to guidelines by the Italian Ministry for Education.
- Teaching Biology by modules, prerequisites and links between subjects.
- Teaching methods
- Lexical competence in Biology
- Contextualize Biology discoveries and developments in their time
- Teaching biology by direct experience; field sampling, biology laboratory, data collecting and elaboration, searching databases.
- Biology for citizenship
- Projecting teaching modules or units for biology classes (e.g. the cell; monocellular organisms, pluricellular organisms; cell metabolism; cell cycles; life cycles; reproduction; biological evolution; biodiversity and classifications; mankind and environment; human evolution; genetics).