science pedagogy

Complex Science Flowchart: An Understanding Science infographic

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

Keller - Feminist Theory - 1990 - UC Berkeley

Reading list and syllabus for course titled 'Feminist Theory' that Keller taught in 1990 at UC Berkeley. 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.

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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

A ‘magic’ school bus brings science class to schools in need (2021)

Non-profit organization Learning Undefeated brings an "explorer lab bus", a mobile STEM lab to rural and low-income schools for immersive STEM experiences. 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. 

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