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标题：Evolution Education: Seeing the Forest for the Trees and Focusing Our Efforts on the Teaching of Evolution
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作者：Nate K. McVaugh ; Jeffrey Birchfield ; Margaret M. Lucero 等
期刊名称：Evolution: Education and Outreach
印刷版ISSN：1936-6434
出版年度：2011
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：286-292
DOI：10.1007/s12052-010-0297-y
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：Evolution is the underlying framework upon which all biology is based; however, when it comes to learning evolutionary concepts, many students encounter obstacles.There are many reasons as to why these obstacles occur.These reasons deal with evolution being treated as a discrete topic among many within a biology curriculum, misunderstanding the nature of science, and personal difficulties with understanding due to evolution’s seemingly abstract nature.In this article, we propose a different way of thinking about and teaching evolution in grades K-12, and it surrounds four core areas essential to the understanding of evolution: variation, selection, inheritance, and deep time.Possibilities for how these areas can affect learning are described and implications for assessment are also discussed.
关键词：Evolution education;Evolution teaching approaches;Learning progressions;Understanding evolution;Evolutionary beliefs;Evolution curricular approaches