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Scientific literacy is emphasized in mainstream science education all over the world, including Korea. BSCS classified the biological concepts to be taught in secondary schools and universities into essential, optional, and non-essential concepts for scientific-literacy training, and defined the range of biological concepts to be taught by school level. The purpose of this study was to confirm the animals and plants that should be taught in each school level, and to classify the concepts into essential, optional, and non-essential ones. A survey was conducted among secondary-school Biology teachers (146 respondents) and university Biology professors (29 respondents) from all over Korea to study the concepts of the animal and plant areas in elementary, middle, and high school. The results of the survey revealed the following. With regard to the teachers’ recognition of the animal and plant domain concepts to be taught in elementary, middle, and high school, the number of essential concepts increased in every biological field as the school level went up. Moreover, there are much more animal and plant domain concepts that the teachers think should be taught in elementary and secondary school compared to those suggested in the curriculum. The biggest difference between the responses of the middle and high school teachers relates to the concepts that they think should be taught in middle school.
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biological concepts, animal and plant domain, essential concepts, elementary and secondary school
