This book deals with biology teaching and is intended for use by either the secondary school biology teacher or for the pre-service preparation of biology teachers to facilitate understanding of the Biological Science Curriculum Study (BSCS), it's philosophy of inquiry, and it's mode of disseminating the content of biology. Section one describes the status of biological education, the influence of BSCS on biological education, and biological education from 1960-1975. Section two includes teaching strategies and styles, reading strategies, strategies for laboratory activities, and strategies generally encompassing most aspects of science classroom instruction. Section three includes the nature and use of invitations to inquiry, causal factors in biology, quantitative relationships in biology, the concept of function in biology, and the concept of the self regulating organism. Section four discusses contemporary issues controlling the biology teacher and includes such topics as careers in science, sex education, and evolution. The last section relates what the future of biological education courses seems to be. (DS)