science pedagogy

The Magic School Bus Made the World Safe for Weird Teachers (2020)

"eccentric"; "odd-but-good"; "diverse interests, complete fearlessness, and unflagging cheer"; " unafraid to be enthusiastic"; "never the hero"Read more

Keller - Gender & Science - Fall 1985 - Course Outline

Course taught by Evelyn Fox Keller at MIT in the Fall of 1985. Courtesy of the Schlesinger Library.Read more

Keller - Gender & Science - Lecture Notes - Fall 1985 - MIT

Lecture notes from 'Gender and Science' course taught by Evelyn Fox Keller at MIT in the Fall of 1985. Courtesy of the Schlesinger Library.Read more

The Dragon in My Garage by Carl Sagan (1995)

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.

Lesson Plan: “The Black Scientific Renaissance of the 1970s-90s:” African American Scientists at Bell Laboratories

This lesson plan is downloaded from the American Institute of Physics' (AIP) Center for the History of Physics to teach about the 1980s and 1990s' "Black renaissance" in Bell Labs, stimulated by the Bell Labs’ Cooperative Research Fellowship Program. Read more

Recognizing Ms. Frizzle's Own Magic (2017)

A science communicator remains inspired by Ms. Frizzle's motto of "take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!". Read more

Keller - Issues of Gender in the History of Science -Syllabus- Fall 1989 - UC Berkeley

Syllabus and notes from 'Issues of Gender in the History of Science' course taught by Evelyn Fox Keller at UC Berkeley in Fall 1989. Courtesy of the Schlesinger Library.