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Bioscience Units

Curriculum Resource Guide

Instructions, lesson outlines, and supporting materials for effective curriculum delivery.

Material

Curriculum Implementation Guide

Curriculum Contributors

Summary Project:

Epistemic Framework Exercise & Application

What did we learn?

Introduction

Presentation Slide Deck

Materials

assignment

Epistemic Framework Assignment

Activity

Epistemic Framework Worksheet
(Instructor's Version)

Activity

Epistemic Framework Worksheet
(Student's Version)

Unit 1:

What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?

Reasoning Exercises in Islam and Science

Introduction

Presentation Slide Deck

Instructional Video of Live Session

Lesson 1

Intro to Epistemology and Islamic Epistemologies

Materials

Supplemental Material

Triple-Entry Journal Template

Triple-Entry Vocabulary Journal

Supplemental Material

Triple-Entry Journal Instructions

Activity

Sources of Knowledge Graphic Organizer

Assessment

Unit 1: Lesson 1 Assessment
(Instructor's Version)

Assessment

Unit 1: Lesson 1 Assessment
(Student's Version)

Lesson 2

The Spectrum of Certainty and Judgment Types

Materials

Judgments or Propositions (hukum)

Worksheet

Jugment/Propositions

Spectrum of Certainty (Truth)

Supplemental Material

Spectrum of Certainty

Proofs of Prophethood - Ithbât an-Nubuwwa

Supplemental Material

Proofs of Prophethood

Supplemental Material

God’s Existence

Assessment

Unit 1 Lesson 2 Assessment
(Instructor's Version)

Assessment

Unit 1 Lesson 2 Assessment
(Student's Version)

Lesson 3

Overlapping Naturalistic and Islamic Epistemologies

Materials

Assessment

Unit 1 Lesson 3 Assessment
(Instructor's Version)

Assessment

Unit 1 Lesson 3 Assessment
(Student's Version)

unit 1: Resource Materials

unit 1: Question Bank

Unit 2:

What is the Origin of Mankind?

Evolution and God’s Special Creation

Introduction

Presentation Slide Deck

Instructional Video of Live Session

Lesson 1

Islamic Narrative of Creation

Materials

Activity

Entry and Exit Ticket

Supplemental Material

Pre-historic Timeline

Assessment

Unit 2: Lesson 1 Assessment
(Instructor's Version)

Assessment

Unit 2: Lesson 1 Assessment
(Student's Version)

Lesson 2.1

The Science of Evolution - Key Principles

Materials

Supplemental Material

Patterns of Pluralism and the Tree of Life Hypothesis

Assessment

Unit 2: Lesson 2.1 Assessment
(Instructor's Version)

Assessment

Unit 2: Lesson 2.1 Assessment
(Student's Version)

Lesson 2.2

The Science of Evolution - Evidence and Acceptance

Materials

Activity

Does Evolutionary Theory Need a Rethink?

Supplemental Material

Comprehending “Human Exceptionalism”

Resource Material

Microevolution vs Macroevolution

Unit 2: Resource Materials

Unit 2: Question Bank

Unit 3:

What Does it Mean to be a Human Being?

Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and the Soul.

Introduction

Presentation Slide Deck

Instructional Video of Live Session

Lesson 1.1

Islamic Concept of the Soul and Neuroscience Reductionism

Materials

Supplemental Material

Science and Epistemology

Assessment

Unit 3: Lesson 1 Assessment
(Instructor's Version)

Assessment

Unit 3: Lesson 1 Assessment
(Student's Version)

Lesson 1.2

Physicalism, Modern Science, and Consciousness

Materials

Activity

Mary’s Room

Supplemental Material

Neuroimaging & Consciousness

Assessment

Unit 3: Lesson 1.2
(Instructor's Version)

Assessment

Unit 3: Lesson 1.2
(Student's Version)

Lesson 2

Artificial Intelligence

Materials

Activity

Meet Sophia: The First Robot

Activity

The Turing Test

Activity

How Chatgpt Works

Activity

Artificial Intelligence and Personhood

Assessment

Unit 3: Lesson 2
(Instructor's Version)

Assessment

Unit 3: Lesson 2
(Student's Version)

Unit 3: Resource Materials

Unit 3: Question Bank

Unit 4:

Human Enhancement and Transhumanism

Are We Changing the Human Being and Should We Change Our Being?

Introduction

Presentation Slide Deck

Instructional Video of Live Session

Lesson 1

Transhumanism - Biomedical Intervention and Biomedical Futures

Materials

Activity

Transhumanism

Assessment

Unit 4: Lesson 1
(Instructor's Version)

Assessment

Unit 4: Lesson 1
(Student's Version)

Lesson 2

Enhancement vs Treatment

Materials

Activity

Meet the Cyborgs

Assessment

Unit 4: Lesson 2
(Instructor's Version)

Assessment

Unit 4: Lesson 2
(Student's Version)

Lesson 3

Revelatory Insight into Enhancing Our Beings and Human Features

Materials

Activity

Video Analysis and Islamic Rewrite
"Fennec's Cybernetic Implants" - Book of Boba Fett S01E04 Clip - 4k

Activity

Video Analysis and Islamic Rewrite
Scene From Avatar Number 2.

Activity

Video Analysis and Islamic Rewrite
Scene From Avatar Part 2

Assessment

Unit 4: Lesson 3
(Instructor's Version)

Assessment

Unit 4: Lesson 3
(Student's Version)

Unit 4: Resource Materials

Unit 4: Question Bank

Unit 5:

Are We Programmed or Do We Have Free Will?

Discussions on Fate and Genetic Determinism

Introduction

Presentation Slide Deck

Instructional Video of Live Session

Lesson 1

Islamic View on Free Will & Determinism

Materials

Activity

Entry and Exit Ticket

Assessment

Unit 5: Lesson 1
(Instructor's Version)

Assessment

Unit 5: Lesson 1
(Student's Version)

Lesson 2

What Does Science Tell Us About Free Will & Determinism

Materials

Activity

Game of Life Instructions

Supplemental Material

Developer of CRISPR

Activity

What is Epigenetics?

Activity

CRISPR Explained

Assessment

Unit 5: Lesson 2
(Instructor's Version)

Assessment

Unit 5: Lesson 2
(Student's Version)

Unit 5: Resource Materials

Unit 5: Question Bank

Unit 6:

Are Human Beings Unique in this Universe?

Science and Theological Inquiry about Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life

Introduction

Presentation Slide Deck

Instructional Video of Live Session

Lesson 1

Do Extra-terrestrial Beings Exist?

Materials

Supplemental Material

How Hadith Critisicm Works

Assessment

Unit 6: Lesson 1
(Instructor's Version)

Assessment

Unit 6: Lesson 1
(Student's Version)

Lesson 2

Human Exceptionalism and How Certain Is Extra-terrestrial Life

Materials

Supplemental Material

Comprehending “Human Exceptionalism”

Assessment

Unit 6: Lesson 2
(Instructor's Version)

Assessment

Unit 6: Lesson 2
(Student's Version)

Unit 6: Resource Materials

Unit 6: Question Bank

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