Vision Biology Learner's Book 1

VISION PUBLISHING LOWER SECONDARY BIOLOGY LEARNER'S BOOK 1

Biology is all about life appreciating your body, keeping yourself and others healthy, and how to positively interact with other life forms in the environment. It helps learners make more informed decisions about significant biological issues, such as, healthy lifestyle, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), antibiotics use, and the eradication of invasive species. It also prepares learners to pursue science-related disciplines in higher education.

This New Vision Biology Book One is a learner-centred, practical, and interactive textbook that was specially written to empower the learner not to merely acquire knowledge of Biology for its own sake but apply it, to live a healthy lifestyle, participate in suggesting/providing solutions to day-to-day problems, self and community hygiene, personal care, and care for one another.

Throughout the book, there are opportunities for learner inquiry and discovery through experimenting, participating in group discussions, excursions and field trips, debates, research, and projects. The learner explores problems and suggest solutions. The activities and experiments were particularly designed to interest the learner to develop the skills of observation, data collection, analysis and discovery, which are the pillars of science. The interconnectedness of concepts in Biology shall provide support for the learner to comprehend other Science subjects, such as, Physical Education, Agriculture, Chemistry, Art & Design, Nutrition & Food Technology and Geography better.

Generic skills, essential life skills and values, as well as appreciation of other cross-cutting issues have been catered for in this textbook to help groom a learner into a model citizen, whose training shall