Nature+of+Science+Resources

The article below really says just about everything I could say about the Nature of Science in school instruction, and I believe it is written toward a teacher audience. It is a must read.

The Whole group lesson on the Nature of Science is listed below. I often do it with my younger classes, but not with my older ones. By the time they are juniors and seniors, if they have not had me, they are probably locked into a positivist view of science by their previous teachers, and one single lesson will do very little for them. Instead, the model for knowledge creation presented here is used throughout the course, and therefore students begin to get an idea about how science is different than what they have been taught.

The following is a paper written by David Maloney and Mark Masters at Indiana and Purdue Universties. It describes the intent behind the 'Games of Science'. After the paper, I have included some other games he wrote later.



Below is the file used to for the cards during the card sorting activity.