Ann Batiza

A recent instructional analysis of middle school and secondary biology textbooks concluded that the presentation of the ideas of energy and the flow of matter in living things prescribed by them was uniformly poor. The purpose of this project is to develop an in-service training workshop, Students Understanding eNergy (SUN), on the fundamental topic of energy transfer in biological systems (i.e., respiration and photosynthesis), and the impact of these processes on the flow of matter and en...