FACTS AND CONCEPTS OF CHEMISTRY OF IMPORTANCE FOR INTRODUCTORY HIGH SCHOOL BIOLOGY.

This article presents a study on facts and concepts of chemistry which might be important for understanding introductory high school biology. The curriculum materials analyzed were either specifically intended for the introductory high school biology course or have had widespread acceptance and use by teachers of such courses. Included in the analyses were textbooks, workbook-laboratory manuals, curriculum guides, films, and professional methods and materials in the teaching of biology. Each fact or concept of chemistry dealt with one or more of the following: the structure, composition, or properties of chemical substances; a change which alters the identity of a chemical substance; the causes or processes which bring about the changes; and energy changes which accompany physical or chemical changes.