Biology Made Real

Biology Made Real explores what makes school biology meaningful for students. Pulling from many sources –including personal experience, educational research, the history and philosophy of biology – you’ll find a way of seeing biology teaching and how I’ve enacted it.

What’s inside:

  • A vision for an integrated and meaningful biology education.
  • A framework for teaching for meaning-making.
  • Concepts that help create a unified narrative across different topics.
  • A taxonomy of understanding can be shared with students and used to assess work.
  • Outstanding book

    The work of a classroom biology teacher. I wish I had read it while I was still teaching school biology. It has helped me to see so many aspects of teaching in a new light. It deserves to be very widely read. I hope it makes a major contribution to how school biology is taught.”
    Dr. Michael Reiss
    Professor of Science Education, University of London