Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Introduction to Life Science

Introduction to Life Science

Launch a unit on life science with this video! It addresses central topics in biology—evolution, cellular structure, and hierarchical organization, to name only three; explains the process of scientific inquiry; and spotlights the contributions of key researchers in the life sciences, from Aristotle to Watson and Crick. The video also provides students with a bird’s-eye view of many exciting biological fields, including biochemistry, ecology, genetics, marine biology, molecular biology, neuroscience, paleontology, and more. A viewable/printable instructor’s guide is available online. Correlates to National Academy of Sciences National Science Education Standards and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Benchmarks for Science Literacy. A Cambridge Educational Production. (18 minutes)

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Item#: BVL33834
Copyright date: ©2005
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN 978-1-4213-1416-7

Part of the Series : Cambridge Core Science Series: BioBasics | Librarian Special-Science


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