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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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Book: Science Stories: Using Case Studies to Teach Critical Thinking (2011)

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

Science checklist: An Understanding Science infographic

This resource developed by the UC Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology helps science educators distinguish science as a special way of knowing, as a human endeavour different from other human endeavours.

Of note is the inclusion of the last two steps--involves the scientific community and...Read more

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

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