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John Burk

The Scientific Method is wrong: Scientists don't test hypotheses, but build m... - 0 views

  • In the real world of scientific investigation, she said, scientists usually rely on a model-based process rather than a hypothesis-driven one. They formulate models based on what they know from previous research and then derive testable hypotheses from those models. Data from experiments don’t validate or invalidate hypotheses as much as they feed back into the models to generate better research questions.
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    a great article on with implications for how to better teach the scientific method
John Burk

Journal of Emerging Investigators | JEI is a scientific journal for middle and high sch... - 0 views

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    This is an online scientific journal for middle school and high school students. It would be great to try to get some students to publish to this. 
Robert Ryshke

Human Development: Startling Views and Images - 0 views

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    This TED Talk by Alexander Tsiaras, a computer programmer and neuroscientist, describes some wonderful images of human development from conception to birth. Check this out.
John Burk

In Test Tube, Hint of Chemicals Coming Alive - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    NYT artilce describing efforts to create RNA based life in the lba
John Burk

Researchers identify seventh and eighth bases of DNA - 0 views

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    eight bases to DNA? Not four? How do bio text writers keep up with all this change? 
John Burk

In Search of Scientific Creativity » Blog Archive » Technology that can build... - 0 views

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    great ideas about how you can use technology in science classes to help students explore science on their own by connecting with real scientists. 
anonymous

MyPhysicsLab - Sumo Wrestling Game - 0 views

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    Sumo wrestling game where students compete against each other and demonstrate all 3 of Newton's laws
Robert Ryshke

Resources : Siemens We Can Change The World Challenge - 0 views

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    This section includes resources to help you facilitate the Challenge and provides a variety of enriching tools to integrate into your classroom instruction. Please take a look at the lesson plans, videos, reading passages, e-books, and more.
John Burk

Can you analyze me now? Cell phones bring spectroscopy to the classroom | News Bureau |... - 1 views

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    how to build a cell phone spectrometer
Kamille Harless

Bilingual babies' vocabulary linked to early brain differentiation - 0 views

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    info on brains of bilingual babies
Eric Brannen

McGraw-Hill's AccessScience Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online - 0 views

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    Newest info on recent discoveries in science
Robert Ryshke

Doom and Vroom - 0 views

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    Science Magazine's excellent resource on human population ecology. Really worth reading some of these articles. Statistics are interesting and graphs are amazingly useful.
Anna Moore

Gallery - Glass Microbiology - Luke Jerram - 0 views

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    stunning glass sculpture of viruses and bacteria. artist's intent is to highlight the irony b/w things that can look so beautiful but be so deadly. teaching tool: allow students to really see these microscopic organisms, let you appreciate different shapes, dimensions
Robert Ryshke

University of Wisconsin Researcher looking at Games to Teach science - 0 views

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    Might be worth looking at if you are searching for a way to teach science differently or turn some students on to science using gaming.
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