Teaching How To Answer

Shellberg, Tom

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ERIC Number: EJ622115

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Publication Date: 2001

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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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