The focus of this article is to expand María del Mar Aragón, José Antonio Acevedo-Díaz and Antonio García-Carmona's paper "Prospective Biology teachers' understanding of the nature of science through an analysis of the historical case of Semmelweis and childbed fever" by focusing on the discussion about teaching non-epistemic aspects of…

This article describes a teaching experience at an year 8 classroom (students aged 12-13) in a state secondary school in London, UK that aimed at widening learning about nature of science (NOS) with the input from the field of Global History of Science (HOS), which looks at science as a product of material and cognitive exchanges, appropriations…

This article arises from a teaching experience at a state secondary school in London/UK that aimed at promoting a more culturally diverse teaching about Nature of Science (NOS) grounded on Global History of Science. Ideas from this field were employed to design four different teaching and learning plans (TLPs) that linked NOS and content from the…

This article presents the results of an exploratory study of students' knowledge about scientists and countries' contributions to science, aiming at answering two research questions: "In which ways are students aware of the history of scientific development carried out by different people in different places of the world? What can be…

A visit to London is presented wherein the places which were of less interest to the tourists and more interest to biologists are described. The places visited include the Museum of Garden History housed in former church of St. Mary at Lambeth, which is important to the history of gardens and of biology because the John Tradescants, elder and…

Contends that storytelling is a device which physics teachers can add to their repertoire for motivating and encouraging students. Presents an example of effective storytelling using the story of the COBE discovery of ripples in cosmic background radiation. (Author/WRM)