THE TEACHING OF BIOLOGY


 6. Living things of the past, and the changes that have occurred.
 7. Relations between individuals, between groups, and among liv-
 ing things in general."
 Textbooks for use and ready reference. The present adopted
textbook, Everyday Biology, Curtis, Caldwell, and Sherman, has
many features to aid the teacher. Its eight broad units are:
 I. Some Major Problems Which Living Things Must
 Solve.
 II. Plants and the World's Food Supply.
 III. The Kinds of Living Things.
 IV. Conservation of Living Things.
 V. Structures and Processes Concerned -with Nutrition.
 VI. The Responses of Living Things.
 VII. The Control of Disease and the Improvement of
 Health.
 VIII. The Continuance and Improvement of Living Things.
These units distinctly show the relationship of biology to per-
sonal and social uses.
 Other teaching aids are sections on how to study, questions
each chapter answers, interesting activities, exercises on scien-
tific attitudes, self-tests, and the like. A glossary provides val-
uable references for expanding vocabularies. The teachers
manual has proved very helpful. Workbooks and published
tests are available.
 The texts formerly in adoption, Problems in Biology, by
Hunter, and New Introduction to Biology, by Kinsey, will con-
tinue to be used for some time in many classes. These texts in-
clude topics similar to those of the adopted text, although not
in the same order. A desk copy of Everyday Biology would be
helpful to each teacher.
 Let's make biology live by these, and other plans.
 1. Preparing for class thoroughly and ahead of time.
 2. Making definite and clear assignments for study and
 laboratory work.
 3. Using a great variety of assignments-written, oral,
 reference, field, experiment, and others.