From health to astronomy, fun facts about these scientific breakthroughs gather the real stories behind discoveries and reveal how scientists work to prove or disprove theories. In settling students at the beginning of each class, science teachers may choose to read one of these entries either one day or stretch it over two days. While it belongs on the reference shelf, you may want to have one or more copies for your circulating collection.
This is a winner and you will want to "book talk" it for your science teachers as soon as your copy arrives. Helping them integrate this content into their curriculum will help make science more important to students who might be less interested.
Stamos takes Eureka seriously, and he does so with the empirical undergirding of vast amounts of scientific scholarship and literary criticism. Hutchisson, author of Poe. Many disciplines, including philosophy, history, and sociology, have attempted to make sense of how science works. In this book, Paul Thagard examines scientific development from the interdisciplinary perspective of cognitive science. Cognitive science combines insights from researchers in many fields: philosophers analyze historical cases, psychologists carry out behavioral experiments, neuroscientists perform brain scans, and computer modelers write programs that simulate thought processes.
Thagard develops cognitive perspectives on the nature of explanation, mental models, theory choice, and resistance to scientific change, considering disbelief in climate change as a case study. He presents a series of studies that describe the psychological and neural processes that have led to breakthroughs in science, medicine, and technology.
He shows how discoveries of new theories and explanations lead to conceptual change, with examples from biology, psychology, and medicine. Finally, he shows how the cognitive science of science can integrate descriptive and normative concerns; and he considers the neural underpinnings of certain scientific concepts. Demetrikopoulos Publisher: Springer ISBN: Category: Education Page: View: This book explores education for juvenile offenders in relation to Passages Academy, which is both similar to and representative of many school programs in juvenile correctional facilities.
Examining the mission and population of this school contributes to an understanding of the ways in which the teachers think about and ultimately act with respect to their detained juveniles students, and particularly illustrates how the tension between punishment and rehabilitation is played out in school policies and design.
By calling attention to the decisions that surround juvenile detention education, the extant research concentrates on three main areas: first, the social, political, and pedagogical forces that determine who enters the juvenile justice systems; second, how these court-involved youths are educated while they are in the system; and third, the practical problems and the social justice issues youths encountered when transitioning back to their community schools.
Gabay teaches is edifying, while its unsparing examination of the forces that push youth into detention is soul shearing. Gabay is at once Tocqueville and Kozol: he brilliantly guides us through the educational territory that is foreign to most of us, even as he paints a searing portrait of teachers who shape lesson plans for students who must learn under impossible conditions. Jul 16, Eng Doaa rated it it was amazing. Jul 14, Sara Mehrez rated it really liked it. Aug 03, Jaime K rated it it was amazing.
Haven covers Greatest Science Discoveries, including some within mathematics. Every discovery is pages long, with a definition and the scientist s attributed to it, a brief blurb on it, and a few paragraphs of background info. Each "chapter" ends with a fun fact that is sometimes a bit random and additional resources.
Despite the typos and some grammar mistakes seriously, was there an editor??? Some of the scientists are crazy! Quite a few discoveries came about because Haven covers Greatest Science Discoveries, including some within mathematics. Also, the malleability if that's the word I'm looking for of mercury is far more important than I've ever realized.
If I had learned as a child, I had forgotten. His motto, since he was a child, was "I can do that. P 22 TBF, division is multiplying by the reciprocal. Silly Haven. That is awesome, no wonder why it's so good to eat. Also, I didn't realize Franklin also discovered the effect ocean currents have on climate. What a brilliant man.
I think I'm going to sniff them. He almost killed himself with carbon dioxide poisoning. What needs to get the job done, right? That is so cool! That wasn't all that long ago! Its singular is "chromatin," which is what Walther Flemming called colored threadlike objects he was finally able to see with a new dye that didn't kill the cells scientists were trying to study. Just like in algebra, Wilhelm Roentgen threw an 'x' there to represent an unknown. Humans and cats are easy. That boggles my mind.
He really does. I understand a smidge more than I used to Haven says in the last sentence of the discovery on page "But an understanding of neutrons was needed in order to fully understand them. That explains why I don't. So was the info on expanding galaxies. I understand more! Science can't explain everything, but any type of theism can. I freaking LOVE it! Bakker wasn't even taken seriously for almost 20 years. That is ridiculous. Science makes me feel young.
We haven't known many things for a long time - a lot is within the past years. I understand that since planets don't emit light it's difficult to see them, but my mind is still boggled. Sep 02, Divine Spark rated it really liked it.
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