LSC: Senior Four Biology

This is a product of the reform of the Lower Secondary School Curriculum in Uganda. Where as the old curriculum aimed at acquiring knowledge, the main idea now is not only to acquire knowledge but also to develop skills, values and competencies.

Competences include: the ability to think critically for yourself, be able to communicate with others and explain what you have learnt, be creative, and develop your own ideas. Learning Biology will help you to: apply and use the principles of the scientific method/process and the application of experimental techniques to solve specific problems. It will also help you to be able to write, communicate and report on biological concepts, and to apply them in other fields of science to accomplish day to day tasks. Hence to successfully address challenges facing society.

This course has a variety of activities for you to do. These activities present to you the opportunity to learn and discover things on your own. Some of the activities, therefore, require you to think about the facts and ideas you already know basing on your experiences in life and with in your own community. In using this book, therefore, it is essential that you do all the activities because they are the most important part of this course.

Most of the work in this course will require you to work with others in groups. This will help you to share ideas, learn and achieve together. Some activities will require you to do research in the library, the Internet or other sources such as newspapers and magazines.

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