Science teachers have their students keep science notebooks and journals as a way to help them keep a record of their work, and as a place to reflect on their ideas. For many teachers, the journal is one way to help students use writing as a vehicle to learn....
In this month's Scientific American there is a very interesting article written by Glenn Branch & Eugenie C. Scott entitled The Latest Face of Creationism in the Classroom. There are three key ideas in the article, and they highlight the controversies that have...
A friend of mine, on Darwin's birthday (February 12), would dress up in Victorian attire as a young Charles Darwin, enter his high school biology classroom, and announce that he was the "father of evolution." Then, he pulled out his iphone, and i-clicked...
This is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, who was born February 12, 1809, which is the same day that Abraham Lincoln was born. Darwin, according to one of our grandsons, is the "father of evolution," (see yesterday's post). Two recent...
Today I received a voicemail from one of our grandsons (Evan) wondering if I might come and speak to his science class. After leaving a message saying I would be happy to do this, he called back and explained. His middle school science teacher is working with the...
There were two articles in the New York Times today that relate to this post about the nature of science teaching. One was an essay entitled by Dennis Overbye, Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy, and the other was an interview with Peter Agre (President of the...
