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A major barrier is difficulty remembering and using levels of biological organization in explanations. Learning approaches such as yo-yo learning recommend moving across levels and making them explicit. 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However, students often encounter difficulty when they attempt to explain biological phenomena. One significant obstacle appears to be the failure or inability to bear in mind the levels of organization. To address this issue, learning strategies, such as the yo-yo learning and teaching strategy, recommend moving across the levels of organization and making those levels explicit in the explanation. To support yo-yo learning, we developed a new graphic organizer, the zoom map. The zoom map combines the levels of organization with concept maps. It is specifically tailored to guide students in biology on ways to distinguish, interrelate and reflect the levels of organization. In this paper, we introduce the zoom map as a tool for instruction and diagnosis. We also provide evidence from teaching experiments that demonstrate how the zoom map benefited learning.  \n Keywords: graphic organizer, concept map, levels of organization, yo-yo learning, systems thinking   \nIntroduction  \nEmploying scientific reasoning when giving biological explanations comes easily to the experienced scientist. However, students often struggle to explain biological phenomena. One significant obstacle is the failure or inability to bear in mind the levels of organization. Research conducted on a wide range of topics has revealed that the levels of organization often present an obstacle to learning in biology (Schneeweiß & Gropengießer, 2019) . Confusing the levels (Wilensky & Resnick, 1999), explaining on only one level (Jördens et al., 2016), or failing to interrelate the levels (Brown & Schwartz, 2009) are often at the root of the problem.  \nTo assist teachers, Jördens et al. (2016), and based on previous work by Knippels (2002); Knippelset al. (2005); Verhoeff et al. (2008) adapted the yo-yo learning and teaching strategy. Moving up and down the levels of organization is the underlying principle of yo-yo learning, and this technique has been valuable for structuring learning sequences and guiding teaching processes. Nevertheless, teachers  \nstill need to explicitly encourage learners to interact with the levels of organization (Hammann, 2019) .  \nTo remedy this shortcoming, we have developed a new graphic organizer, the zoom map. This is a tailor-made tool to guide biology students and help them distinguish, interrelate, and reflect the levels of organization. In the section below, we first explain our understanding of how explanations are constructed. We then describe the starting points for the development of the zoom map, namely the concept map and yo-yo learning. Finally, using case studies taken from our teaching experiments, we explain and discuss the learning opportunities and difficulties presented by the use of the zoom map.  \nTheoretical Background  \n2.1 Emergent construction in interaction  \nStudents do not have existing explanations for phenomena already stored in their memory. Instead, students construct such explanations in situations of social learning and through interaction with three sources, two of which are external and one of which is internal. To construct an explanation, an individual interacts with (1) the object of reference (i.e., the  \n\n| Figure 1.\u003Cbr>Emergent construction in interaction. |\n| --- |\n| \u003Cbr>Emergent construction in interaction (arrows) with a phenomenon, utterances of teacher or peer, and theresources of available cognitive structures. |\n\nphenomenon to be explained) (2) other people (i.e., teacher and peers) and (3) with their avail","cbCaiomau0EPQLs1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiomau0EPQLs1","pdf",674503,11,"English","# Introduction\n## Theoretical Background\n### Emergent construction in interaction\n### Graphic organizers for knowledge interrelation\n### Understanding is based on experience","[{\"question\":\"What learning challenge does the zoom map address?\",\"answer\":\"Students often fail to remember or manage the levels of biological organization when explaining biological phenomena.\"},{\"question\":\"How does yo-yo learning relate to the design of the zoom map?\",\"answer\":\"Yo-yo learning is based on moving up and down the levels of organization while making those levels explicit in explanations.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the zoom map, and how is it intended to help students?\",\"answer\":\"The zoom map is a graphic organizer combining organization levels with concept maps, tailored to help students distinguish, interrelate, and reflect on those levels.\"}]","The Zoom Map - A New Graphic Organizer to Guide Students’ Explanations Across the Levels of Biological Organization | PDF",1792080323,28]