Teaching resources
Biology classrooms can be a space that explores the complexity of reproduction, sex, gender, sexual behavior, and orientation across life in affirming ways by incorporating cutting edge biology and making room for the humanity of our students.
Resource 1:
A recent paper that collects examples of how we teach this diversity ranging from a teachable unit for a class day to individual assignments to structuring entire courses.
S.L. Eddy, J.J. Falk, M.G. Massa, K.M. Warkentin, A.M.A. Casper, Teaching accurate sex-related biology: Approaches for more socially just instruction, Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2026;, icag136, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icag136
Resource 2:
Recommendations for thinking about how to build a culture in biology and biology departments that would sustain continued curriculum transformation around these topics.
Casper et al. (2025). Sustaining socially just and accurate life sciences teaching for sex, gender, and reproduction? Natural Sciences Education, 54, e70020. https://doi.org/10.1002/nse2.70020
Resources from others:
Multiple teams are tackling the way we teach reproduction, sex, gender, sexual behavior and orientation from many different angles including K-12 classrooms, university courses, and teacher preparation. Below are links to resources other groups have developed.
Gender Inclusive Biology
This group of middle school and high school biology teachers have developed a plethora of resources and have published a recommendations paper.
In collaboration with researchers at the STEM Center for Research Education and Outreach SIUE, they have developed NGSS aligned high school biology curriculum.
Project Biodiversify
This group focuses on the college level and has published a set of recommendations and teaching resources.
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