Although the university preparatory SBI4U biology course is varied and comprehensive in nature, an overarching theme of glucose can be seen in each of the 5 strands of the curriculum. This resource suggests a strategy for spiralling this concept throughout the SBI4U curriculum and concluding the course with a culminating task of a mind map. This task requires students to connect course topics back to the root concept that glucose is a crucial macromolecule for every biological function. A spiral curriculum is “one in which there is an iterative revisiting of topics, subjects or themes throughout the course”, with “each successive encounter building on the previous one” (Harden 1999).
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