Abstract
Reading Nature: Engaging Biology Students with Evidence from the Living World . By Matthew Kloser and Sophia Grathwol. 2018. National Science Teachers Association Press. (ISBN: 1681402807). 199 pp. Paperback, $24.95. Science concepts are based on evidence, but this may not be obvious to students taught with traditional texts. Information is presented without supporting data or the stories behind the discoveries. When students study DNA replication, they are expected to learn the steps and outcome of the process but not about how this was discovered. They will dutifully learn the fluid mosaic model of the cell membrane, but with no information about how scientists determined that this was an acceptable model. Reading Nature seeks to address this lapse, highlighted after the release of the Next Generation Science Standards in 2013, by providing structures to encourage students to ask “Why and how do we know that?” This supplemental textbook contains …
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