This book advocates for the use of case studies to teach critical thinking in science. The editors--Clyde Freeman Herreid, Nancy A. Schiller, Ky F. Herreid--founded the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science hosted at the University of Buffalo. Their website...Read more
A science communicator remains inspired by Ms. Frizzle's motto of "take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!". Read more
Authors discuss the interplay of different genres in the children's book The Magic School Bus: At the Waterworks (1996) with Ms. Frizzle as their science teacher. Read more
How teachers can use hybrid texts (factual + narrative, in this case) for science learning, including activity suggestionsRead more
This resource developed by the UC Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology for their project Understanding Science helps science teachers working with middle school and higher grades to expand and complicate the scientific method/...Read more
This short essay is a chapter in Sagan's 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World to teach and popularize the concept of falsifiability. The idea is proposed and scaffolded by ad hoc reasoning so that the goalposts of testing are always shifting.
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