Strategies for Teaching Molecular Biology at Grammar School Level: from Theory to Laboratory Practice
2015
Abstract
Molecular biology is one of the most dynamic fields of contemporary biology and plays an important role in biology education at different school levels. Based on our in-depth comparative analysis of 160 Grammar School Education Programmes (42 % of all Czech grammar schools), molecular biology together with genetics and cell biology form an integral part of the grammar school curriculum in the Czech Republic.
However, the educational content of molecular biology at grammar school level, including both the subject matter and expected student outcomes, is mostly limited to theoretical concepts, without implementing laboratory experiments, bioinformatics tasks or other laboratory practice-oriented classroom activities.