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Using Current Events to Engage Students in Scientific Discourse

Published:2024-08-01 Issue:6 Volume:86 Page:332-338
ISSN:0002-7685
Container-title:The American Biology Teacher
language:en
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Author:

Minbiole Julie E.

Abstract

Instructors from K–16 incorporate current events and contemporary media in their courses in a variety of ways and with different educational objectives. Here, I present strategies for selecting and framing current events in high school and undergraduate biology courses and an example assignment, all explicitly tied to science practice skills and utilizing coursework to advance students’ science literacy and participation in the discourse. In this way, current events activities become a core part of the course experience, rather than an “extra” investment of planning and course time requiring trade-offs of instructional time devoted to other topics.

Publisher

University of California Press

Link

https://online.ucpress.edu/abt/article-pdf/86/6/332/832644/abt.2024.86.6.332.pdf

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