on, because the temperature inside the room was around 0 degrees Celsius.
The names of the students have been changed to protect their privacy.
Observation notes of a biology lesson
Teacher: Salamatsynarby (Good morning).
Pupils: Salamatsyzby, ejeke (Good morning, teacher).
Teacher: OK, pupils. Did you read your homework? Let us review it. Who
will tell us how animals survive when change takes place?
Pupil: The animals also change to adapt.
Teacher: How do they change?
Pupil: They change their colour, their lifestyles....
Teacher: Anything else?
Pupil: They survive by natural and artificial selection...
Teacher: What do you mean by that?
Pupil: Natural selection is when nature selects animals, and some of them
survive and others die out.... Artificial selection is when people select
some animals or birds artificially.
Teacher: OK. Now answer what are ontogenesis and phylogenies? (She
quickly switched to another question... She addressed one of the pupils).
Bakyt, answer this question. What is evolution?
Bakyt: Ejeke, I don’t know because I was absent from the last lesson.
Teacher: So what if you were absent? What is your last name?
Bakyt: (with hesitation) It’s Mamytov, ejeke.... Please don’t give me a “2”.
Let me prepare and respond next lesson?
Teacher: You were to prepare homework whether you came to class or
not.... You will do it as otrabotka (make-up work). (She put a bad mark in
her notebook. Bakyt sat back in his chair dissatisfied). Now you know that
you have to prepare this assignment and report to me after school hours.
(Turning to the whole class) Now, another question. What is evolution?
... You cannot learn Biology without knowing about evolution.... First,