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| Preface | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Is Standards-Based Teaching? | |
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| Inquiry | |
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| Constructivism | |
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| Resources for Educators | |
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| Science as Inquiry | |
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| The Inquiry Cubes | |
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| She Turned Me into a Newt (I Got Better) | |
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| Storytelling Graphing | |
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| Crossed Knives: A Pattern Game | |
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| The Distraction Stick: Another Pattern Game | |
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| Case Study Study | |
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| Investigating Plant Growth | |
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| Scientific Inquiry Assessment | |
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| Biology Portfolio | |
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| The Cell | |
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| What Is Life? Part 1: Glue Goblins | |
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| What Is Life? Part 2: Investigations | |
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| What Is Life? Part 3: The Andromeda Strain | |
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| Potato Bubbles: An Introduction to Enzymes | |
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| Floating Filter Paper Chips: An Exploration of Enzyme Activity | |
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| Breakfast Is Ready: Bacon Diffusion | |
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| Investigating Osmosis in Plant Cells | |
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| The Osmosis Inquiry Egg | |
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| Mitosis Sequencing | |
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| The Molecular Basis of Heredity | |
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| Mendel's Data | |
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| Multifactorial Inheritance | |
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| Nature and Nurture | |
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| Chargaff's DNA Data | |
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| Classifying Oaks with DNA | |
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| Biological Evolution | |
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| Explaining Evolution | |
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| The Lost World | |
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| Are Humans Still Evolving? | |
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| Dissecting Frog Evolution | |
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| The Interdependence of Organisms | |
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| History of a Carbon Atom: Part 1 | |
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| History of a Carbon Atom: Part 2 | |
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| Life or Death Food Chain Decision | |
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| Investigating Forest Succession | |
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| Matter, Energy, and Organization in Living Systems | |
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| Water Discrepancies | |
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| Why Are Plants Green? | |
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| Why Are Plants Not Always Green? | |
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| Autotroph Inquiries: Comings and Goings | |
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| Autotroph Inquiries: Do Plants Respire? | |
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| Autotroph Inquiries: Building Organic Molecules | |
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| Cold-Blooded Thermometers | |
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| Energy Storage Molecules and Natural Selection | |
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| The Behavior of Organisms | |
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| Termite Trails Mystery | |
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| Red Dot Special | |
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| The Mozart Effect: Investigating Music and Memory | |
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| The Mozart Effect: Are You Buying It? | |
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| Science in Personal and Social Perspectives | |
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| Putting SPF to the Test | |
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| Watershed Investigations | |
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| Consider the Issues | |
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| Debating Biological/Societal Topics | |