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  1. Education in the life sciences is seen as an enormous undertaking when its full national scope is considered. The pyramid of numbers begins with unreckoned millions of elementary school children whose first exposure to things scientific comes from experience with living things. It continues through the approximately 2.5 million high school students enrolled in formal biology courses each year ...

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  2. Schooling behaviour, Activity characteristic of clupeiform fish (herrings, anchovies, and allies) in which many fish swim together, appearing to act as a single organism. A school of herring may contain many millions of individuals of roughly similar size. Fishes above or below the size limit break.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. Oct 13, 2017 · The committee 4 that authored A New Biology (NRC, 2009; Figure 1) was asked by the National Institutes of Health, NSF, and the U.S. Department of Energy to undertake an appraisal of areas in which the life sciences are poised to make major advances and of how these advances could contribute to practical applications and improved environmental stewardship, human health, and quality of life.

    • Jay B. Labov, Ann H. Reid, Keith R. Yamamoto
    • 2010
  4. May 2, 2022 · As biological science rapidly generates new knowledge and novel approaches to address increasingly complex and integrative questions, biology educators face the challenge of teaching the next generation of biologists and citizens the skills and knowledge to enable them to keep pace with a dynamic field. Fundamentally, biology is the science of living systems. Not surprisingly, systems is a ...

  5. Dec 2, 2011 · Schooling often rests uneasily on presumed dichotomies between coverage and inquiry, skill development, and creativity. By drawing on the often under-recognized parallels between biological evolution and human learning, this essay argues that formal education needs and ought not to forego the unconscious exploratory processes of informal learning. Rather than posit as natural the cultural ...

    • Paul Grobstein, Alice Lesnick
    • 2011
  6. 4 days ago · The dictionary’s chronologies chart developments in major fields including cell biology, genetics, microscopy, and vitamins. A new feature is the inclusion of entry-level web links.With over 5,500 clear and concise entries, over 400 of them new to this edition, this market-leading dictionary is the perfect guide for anyone studying biology, either at school or university.

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  8. Oct 1, 2018 · The education of children throughout their development is a key cornerstone for the creation of a successful society. 1,2,3 In order to inform educational policymakers on how to maximize the ...

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