Experimental design is an uncontroversial component of science curricula. It helps students learn methodology, how to spot flaws in arguments, and, partly, how scientists create knowledge. Yet, much of what we teachers see in experimental…
Reading great books is the only one short cut to improving subject knowledge. Here, I compile a selection that have helped me develop as a teacher and are accessibly-written. It isn’t a complete list of…
Explanation in biology is said to be split between two big questions: the how and the why. So what do these mean? The idea started with Ernst Mayr. In the 1960s Mayr published his ideas…