The materials featured here were designed to be used by high school biology teachers who want to address the nature of science.
Each of the three self-contained units will require approximately six days of instruction. Even though the units share an emphasis upon scientific thinking and the use of the Internet, they can be used in any order without being redundant.
The units take advantage of Internet technologies but do not require that the students are on-line on a daily basis. The sequence in which the activities within a unit are used is crucial as they are based upon research about how students best learn science concepts and the nature of science. The first unit addresses the molecular basis of memory and the other two units are tentatively about the human genome and the genetics of addiction.
