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ERIC Number: EJ622115
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-7685
Teaching How To Answer "Why" Questions about Biology.
Shellberg, Tom
American Biology Teacher, v63 n1 p16-19 Jan 2001
Presents ways of discussing how to answer questions about common biological phenomena to introduce students to the rich explanatory power of selection theory to show the distinction between proximate and evolutionary answers and to discourage teleological thinking. (ASK)
Descriptors: Biology, Higher Education, Questioning Techniques, Science Education, Secondary Education, Thinking Skills
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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