A change from memorization to inquiry-based learning has prompted biology teachers to ask Elgin Area Unit District 46 for new biology textbooks.
Teachers from each of the district's four high schools, including special education and bilingual teachers, worked together to recommend "Biology: The Web of Life" and "Globe Biology" at a cost of $162,195.
Martha Kellams, a biology teacher at Elgin High School, said the books are written at levels all students can understand but are not oversimplified, "Dick and Jane" materials.
"I do not want to dumb-down our curriculum," Kellams said.
Every student in U-46 must take biology, and the books students use now are seven years old. Those books emphasize memorization and "cookbook" type labs students can predict easily, Kellams said.
Although U-46 students have not done dissections for years, labs require students to memorize the names of body parts rather than understanding how organs work together to keep the body functioning
Teachers from each of the district's four high schools, including special education and bilingual teachers, worked together to recommend "Biology: The Web of Life" and "Globe Biology" at a cost of $162,195.
Martha Kellams, a biology teacher at Elgin High School, said the books are written at levels all students can understand but are not oversimplified, "Dick and Jane" materials.
"I do not want to dumb-down our curriculum," Kellams said.
Every student in U-46 must take biology, and the books students use now are seven years old. Those books emphasize memorization and "cookbook" type labs students can predict easily, Kellams said.
Although U-46 students have not done dissections for years, labs require students to memorize the names of body parts rather than understanding how organs work together to keep the body functioning
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