Fostering scientific literacy from the Perspective of Middle School Biology Teaching.doc

Fostering scientific literacy from the Perspective of Middle School Biology Teaching [Abstract] bio-emergence of the concept of scientific literacy worldwide biological curriculum reform more effective. Biology teaching in China also established a culture of biological science literacy of all students the purpose of education. This article from the perspective of fostering scientific literacy interpretation of scientific literacy, scientific literacy and other related biological concepts, and on this basis, China’s biology curriculum standards proposed by the connotation and extension of his own views, to guide the education of our high school biology teacher, teaching reform and practice. [Keywords:] Scientific Literacy Curriculum School of Biological Sciences Biology Biology Teaching Literacy Belong to natural science biology. Biology course is a science curriculum, which is one of the fundamental nature of biology courses. Science is a rich body of knowledge, including the nature of human understanding of some of the special ways and means. Precisely because the life of the world with these questions and to obtain accurate answers to more reliable methods, such as observation, quantify, verify, and thinking skills, human understanding of their own and the environment to an increasingly in-depth, comprehensive and reliable. These methods reflect the natural sciences and other areas of the different modes of cognition, but also embodies the basic characteristics and the nature of science. Biology courses as a science curriculum, not only to the dissemination of scientific facts and concepts, but also to reflect the science is an inquiry process. The purpose of biology education should be to cultivate bio-scientific literacy of all students. The purpose of the establishment of our biology courses will produce some significant changes. Understand the concept of the new curriculum will also help their biology teacher, teaching reform and practice. 1,