Understand biology better: steps to follow

One of the foremost necessary divisions of science that are applied in several other fields is understood as biology. Subjects like chemistry, genetics, biochemistry, pharmacy, zoology, plant anatomy, and botany are all about biology. It helps students in many ways. Few of them are

●    Teach us how the body functions. 

●    Broadening the career opportunities like medical, pharmacy, teaching, scientist, researcher, nursing are some such professions. 

●    Boosts educational scores 

●    Helps to know and relate to everyday tasks better. 

All these benefits tell us the importance of learning biology. Now we will be discussing the ways by which students can understand biology better. Also, we are going to be reading the tips that teachers can use for effective biology teaching. 

 Tips for students

1. Use technology

Biology is filled with diagrams, details, facts, and large biological terms. Sometimes understanding the biological topics like the functioning of different parts, reproduction systems, evolution, heredity, etc gets difficult from the textbooks. To make this subject more understandable to you, students can use technical and advanced learning tools available to them. On many online teaching sites many presentations, modules, biology notes, educational videos, picture cards, and animations are uploaded which students can use to know well and make biology more interesting for themselves. Together, with using textbooks and guides, technical tools for this purpose may be very beneficial. 

2. Read properly 

Focused reading is extremely important to grasp their teachings well. Sometimes, a significant mistake that mostly all students make is that they begin memorising without understanding and reading. And this affects their scores in papers. A rather different or tricky question makes them worried about a way to answer it because they haven't done a line-wise reading of chapters. 

 During self-studies, make sure that before learning the question answers and definitions, you properly read. While reading, underline and highlight the important terms and facts. Also, before the teacher begins a fresh lesson, come pre-prepared by reading the lesson for once. 

3. Make notes 

Biology is a  theoretical subject and to know and learn it better, note making is extremely important. Always while reading the chapters, keep your biology notebook and pen in hand. After reading a specific topic write the important pointers. This may facilitate grasping and comprehending the topics better. Also, the prepared biology notes are often used as a helpful resource while exam preparations and revisions. 

What should teachers do? 

1. Organise field trips

 Biology is a subject that relates us to nature, its components, the environment, and so the ecosystem. All these topics can be taught well by conducting field trips for them. Only teaching this from books isn't sufficient to understand and relate to biology well. Using ERP software, teachers can smoothly conduct and manage these activities for learners. 

The places which could be visited are biological parks, wildlife sanctuaries, zoological gardens, science museums, nearby gardens, and plant nurseries. These visits provide students with the opportunity to understand and see the world in real life. In the case of online learners, virtual tips can also be conducted. 

2. Student participation

Only teachers lecturing and students listening is quite a monotonous practice and obstructs the active learning process. Instead of this, teachers must focus on the overall class participation. With more participation, students understand better. 

 What teachers can do is, ask questions in between teaching. Tell students to answer whatever they know. Develop an environment where students can speak up without the fear of being judged or scolded. Using ERP, conduct activities like group discussions, presentations, quizzes, and events for students. 

3. Conduct lab visits 

Along with theoretical knowledge, practical knowledge is equally important. Also, practical understanding stimulates good learning theories additionally. Therefore visiting labs is important. 
 Here students can solve, make, and conduct experiments. Topics like dissection, anatomy,  cells, watching and observing specimens, making different solutions and much more can be performed. Also, it teaches several values to the students, that experiments must be conducted in labs only and not at other places. It teaches them discipline, decorum, and knowledge about the sensitivity of scientific objects. 

Conclusion 

Biology is a very valuable subject. From understanding everyday life to high academic scores biology knowledge is extremely helpful for the learners. All the above-mentioned tips can be used by the students to understand biology better. We also discussed the techniques that teachers can use to impart quality biology education.