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Collaborative Decision Making: NASA's Deep Impact Mission part of Web Resource Collection
This site is designed to engage students in grades 7-12 in activities that focus on collaboration and communication strategies. These activities will strengthen student understanding of and ability ...NSES: 5-8:Standard A: Science as Inquiry:Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
Subject: Policy issues, Space science, History and philosophy of science
Resource Type: Learning Materials:Module or unit
Subject: Policy issues, Space science, History and philosophy of science
Resource Type: Learning Materials:Module or unit
Galileo's Dialogue part of Web Resource Collection
This lesson plan is part of the DiscoverySchool.com lesson plan library for grades 9-12. It focuses on Galileo's observations and conclusions about Earth's place in the the solar system and how this ...NSES: 9-12:Standard E: Science and Technology:Understandings about science and technology
Subject: Space science, History and philosophy of science
Resource Type: Learning Materials:Lesson plan
Subject: Space science, History and philosophy of science
Resource Type: Learning Materials:Lesson plan
The Theory of Continental Drift part of Web Resource Collection
This is a brief review of the Theory of Continental Drift and the evidence that led Alfred Wegener to state the theory. It describes evidence of matching but misplaced rocks, uncovered fossils in ...NSES: K-4:Unifying Concepts and Processes:Evidence, models, and explanation
Subject: History and philosophy of science, Geological Sciences:Geology
Resource Type: Text:Reference
Subject: History and philosophy of science, Geological Sciences:Geology
Resource Type: Text:Reference
Natural Selection: Introduction to the Nature of Explanatory Models part of Web Resource Collection
This information is designed to connect what students have learned about scientific arguments to the role and nature of explanatory models in science. They will be asked to read and discuss a brief ...NSES: 5-8:Unifying Concepts and Processes:Systems, order, and organization
Subject: History and philosophy of science, Biology, Geological Sciences:Paleontology
Resource Type: Learning Materials:Classroom Activity
Subject: History and philosophy of science, Biology, Geological Sciences:Paleontology
Resource Type: Learning Materials:Classroom Activity
Natural Selection: Understanding Lamarck's Model part of Web Resource Collection
This information will provide students with an opportunity to understand the ideas proposed by Jean Baptiste de Lamarck in 1809. Lamarck was an eighteenth century naturalist who came to the idea that ...NSES: 9-12:Unifying Concepts and Processes:Evidence, models, and explanation
Subject: History and philosophy of science, Biology
Resource Type: Learning Materials:Classroom Activity
Subject: History and philosophy of science, Biology
Resource Type: Learning Materials:Classroom Activity
Natural Selection: Introduction to Darwin's Model part of Web Resource Collection
This information will introduce students to Darwin's model of natural selection in the same way that they learned about Paley and Lamarck. First, they will read an excerpt from Origin of Species and ...NSES: 9-12:Unifying Concepts and Processes:Evidence, models, and explanation
Subject: History and philosophy of science, Biology
Resource Type: Learning Materials:Classroom Activity
Subject: History and philosophy of science, Biology
Resource Type: Learning Materials:Classroom Activity
Natural Selection: Comparison of the Models part of Web Resource Collection
This lesson provides an opportunity for students to extend their understanding of the three models studied in previous lessons by using them to explain phenomena and by comparing them to one another. ...NSES: 9-12:Unifying Concepts and Processes:Evidence, models, and explanation
Subject: Biology, History and philosophy of science
Resource Type: Learning Materials:Instructor guide
Subject: Biology, History and philosophy of science
Resource Type: Learning Materials:Instructor guide
Natural Selection: Exploring Variation and Heritability part of Web Resource Collection
This lesson has students think about two important components of Darwin's model of natural selection in greater detail. First, they will have an opportunity to explore the natural variations present ...NSES: 9-12:Unifying Concepts and Processes:Evidence, models, and explanation
Subject: Mathematics, Biology, History and philosophy of science
Resource Type: Learning Materials:Classroom Activity
Subject: Mathematics, Biology, History and philosophy of science
Resource Type: Learning Materials:Classroom Activity
Natural Selection: Monarch/Viceroy Case part of Web Resource Collection
This lesson will provide students with an opportunity to use their understanding of the natural selection model to explain phenomena. For this case they will be asked to account for the bright ...NSES: 9-12:Unifying Concepts and Processes:Evidence, models, and explanation
Subject: Biology, Environmental science, History and philosophy of science
Resource Type: Learning Materials:Classroom Activity
Subject: Biology, Environmental science, History and philosophy of science
Resource Type: Learning Materials:Classroom Activity
Mercator Projection part of Web Resource Collection
This video helps students see for themselves the problems of using a Mercator projection map to represent Antarctica. A brief overview covers the creation of this map projection in the 16th century, ...NSES: 5-8:Unifying Concepts and Processes:Evidence, models, and explanation
Subject: History and philosophy of science, Geographical Sciences:Physical geography, Technology
Resource Type: Text:Reference
Subject: History and philosophy of science, Geographical Sciences:Physical geography, Technology
Resource Type: Text:Reference
