Biology Teaching Styles.

Biology Teaching Styles
1.) Relate Biology to Everyday Life

Biology topics relate to beauty, healthcare, clothing, fuel, and more. Biology permeates so many
aspects of everyday life, so these examples are used to teach. Start by tapping into your students’
natural curiosity of life, making biology relevant to them by relating topics taught in the
classroom with their everyday lives. This form of integrative learning has many benefits,
including improved student learning retention and creative thinking.
2.) Do Interesting Experiments

A biology lesson can be a hands-on experience. Doing interesting experiments can engage
students and help them get excited about their learning. Students can extract DNA from fruit like
a banana or strawberry, dissect a frog, or examine a fingerprint. Utilize anything that gets their
brains going and helps them learn the material. This method is commonly thought of as a hands
on and minds on approach to teach science where students have the opportunity to gain some
experience with phenomena associated with their course of study. In this method either students
participate alone or in small groups. They produce or manipulate various variables that are under
exploration. The degree to which a student has control over exploration can vary over a wide
range. Here the students learn by actual doing rather than my observing the experiments. As
young children do it by themselves, the experience is impressed more firmly in their minds.
Thus, this method is psychologically sound as it satisfies the natural urge for activity. This
method broadens the interest of the students. They learn many virtues through laboratory activity.
The experience in a laboratory is very rich in personal satisfaction as they gain it firsthand. The
sense of excitement and challenge help them to achieve something tangible.
3.) Variety in teaching

One of the keyways to engage students in any subject is by alternating between teaching styles so
that the classroom doesn’t become predictable and stagnant. It’s useful to remember that students
learn in all different ways, so alternating teaching styles regularly not only keeps them more
engaged but allows some students more opportunities to learn in accordance with their learning
style. A recent survey found that 22.8% of respondents prefer kinaesthetic learning, making it
the most popular learning style and beating auditory, visual and read/write by an impressive
margin.
By offering a range of materials such as textbooks, podcasts, videos and games, this will enable
different kinds of learners to absorb the greatest amount of information from them. In addition,
there are various methods to help students learn a topic including lecturing, concept mapping,
discussions, reading and allowing for cooperative student learning or assigning practical
activities.
4.Biology Field Trips
Hosting biology-centered field trips provides a change of pace from the traditional classroom and
can bring about a host of benefits that encourage student engagement and learning. Having
practical biology in action can reinforce the lessons taught in class and cement them in your
students’ minds. Consider visiting a local park, wilderness reserve, farm or botanical garden to
allow students to see, in person, the topics they were learning about. Similarly, a trip to a science
museum or research lab can open pupils’ eyes to the vast progress humans have made in science,
highlighting life-saving Inventions from the past or current innovations.
5.Incorporate technology
Students interact with technology on a daily basis and are therefore comfortable and open to
being taught through this medium. Technology, and the array of information on the internet, can
be utilized in the classroom to innovatively teach biology. Technology can engage all different
kinds of students as it caters to a variety of learning styles including auditory, visual and
kinesthetic. There are many educational resources available online that can be utilized both in the
planning and execution of teaching biology.
6.Project Method
This method was propounded by W.H Kilpatrick. This method was perfected by J.A Sternson.
The base of this method lies in the philosophy of pragmatism. This method emphasizes building
a comprehensive unit around an activity which may be carried out in school or outside. The
essence of this method lies in the fact that a group of students do a purposeful task. This implies
the students undertake the activity in a group or individually over a period of time. It may
include a few activities and the product is in the form of written report or a display. “A project is
a whole-hearted purposeful activity proceeding in a social environment”- Dr. William Kilpatrick.
“A project is a problematic act carried to completion in its natural setting”. – Stevenson. “A
project is a bit of real life that has been imported into school. – Ballard. Thus, a project is a
purposeful activity and planned activity which is achieved in social, natural situations created in
schools.
. Problem Solving Method

Science subject is one of the important subjects in school education. However, really the
traditional teaching methods are challenged for their inability to foster critical thinking, holistic
learning environment among children. The science subject must develop science process skills
where children, observe, measure, classify, process information, interpret think on solving
problems, analyze, synthesize, formulate conclusions, etc. but, it should be kept in mind that,
creativity in an essential element of P.S. In a problem-solving method, children learn by working
on problems. This enables the students to learn new knowledge by facing the problems to be
solved. The students are expected to observe, understand, analyze, interpret, find solutions,
perform applications that lead to a holistic understanding of the concept. This method develops
scientific process skills. This method helps in developing a brainstorming approach to learning
concepts. The students thinking on problem and their understanding of the science behind it is
based on common sense. It does not start from textual knowledge. Rather it proceeds from
experiencing to gradually forming concepts through books at a later stage. It is a process from
practice to theory not vice versa. Knowledge here is not a goal but a natural outcome of working
on tasks. Students live in the real world and like to deal with concrete things where they can
touch, feel manipulate things then the method is useful in igniting the process of science
learning.

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1.) Relate Biology to Everyday Life

2.) Do Interesting Experiments

3.) Variety in teaching

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