How we teach science : what's changed, and why it matters / John L. Rudolph.
How we teach science : what's changed, and why it matters / John L. Rudolph.
How we teach science : what's changed, and why it matters / John L. Rudolph.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
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G 2019/3132
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English
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308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
From textbook to laboratory -- The laboratory in practice -- Student interest and the new movement -- The scientific method -- Problems and projects -- The war on method -- Origins of inquiry -- Scientists in the classroom -- Project 2061 and the nature of science -- Science in the standards era.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2019.
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The science taught in high schools-Newton's theory of universal gravitation, basic structure of the atom, cell division, DNA replication-is accepted as the way nature works. What is puzzling is how this precisely specified knowledge could come from an intellectual process-the scientific method-that has been incredibly difficult to describe or chara...
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How we teach science : what's changed, and why it matters / John L. Rudolph.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/3132
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74VKVx77gEGA
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0674919343 hardcover alkaline paper
9780674919341 hardcover alkaline paper
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507.1273
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991024246480402626
