Biology Concepts and Investigations 4th Edition by Mariëlle Hoefnagels 

Biology Concepts and Investigations 4th Edition by Mariëlle Hoefnagels

ISBN-13: 9780078024207

ISBN-10: 007802420X

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About the Author

Mariëlle Hoefnagels is an associate professor in the Department of Biology and the Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology at the University of Oklahoma, where she teaches courses in introductory biology, mycology, and science writing. She has received the University of Oklahoma General Education Teaching Award and the Longmire Prize (the Teaching Scholars Award from the College of Arts and Sciences). She has also been awarded honorary memberships in several student honor societies. Dr. Hoefnagels received her BS in environmental science from the University of California at Riverside, her MS in soil science from North Carolina State University, and her PhD in plant pathology from Oregon State University. Her dissertation work focused on the use of bacterial biological control agents to reduce the spread of fungal pathogens on seeds. In addition to authoring Biology: The Essentials and Biology: Concepts and Investigations, her recent publications have focused on creating investigative teaching laboratories and integrating technology into introductory biology classes. She also maintains a blog on teaching nonmajors biology, and she frequently gives presentations on study skills and related topics to student groups across campus.

Preface

Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call

to Action encourages instructors to improve student engagement

and learning in introductory biology courses. The central idea

of the original Vision and Change report—and of the conferences

and reports that followed—is that we need to turn away

from teaching methods that reward students who memorize and

regurgitate superficial knowledge. Instead, we need to emphasize

deeper learning that requires students to understand and apply

course content. This idea is precisely what I have tried to achieve

since I started teaching at the University of Oklahoma in 1997,

and it has been a guiding principle in the creation of my books

and digital material as well.

This edition retains what users have always loved about

this book: the art program, readable narrative, handy study

tips, Investigating

Life essays, and tutorial animations. We

also supply a variety of supplements that make teaching easier,

including eye-catching PowerPoint® lectures with integrated

clicker questions that assess conceptual understanding. As you

examine this new edition, however, I hope you will see an even

stronger emphasis on connections and the “big picture.” Our

most prominent new feature, Survey the Landscape, shows

how each chapter’s content fits into the unit’s overall emphasis.

Students often struggle to connect new topics to what they

have learned previously; Survey the Landscape is designed to

help them keep an eye on the big picture. These new figures,

which appear in each chapter opener, can be integrated with the Pull It Together figure in every chapter’s summary to help

students see the “forest” and the “trees.”