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Anthony Lorsbach; Allison Antink Meyer – American Biology Teacher, 2024
This lesson used the correspondence of Charles Darwin as an exploration of nature of science (NOS) in a historical context. Specifically, we used his original correspondence about his "provisional hypothesis" of pangenesis as a novel way to explore a scientist's social community. Darwin's community of friends and colleagues in the…
Descriptors: Scientists, Science History, Preservice Teacher Education, Primary Sources
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Douglas Allchin – American Biology Teacher, 2024
"American Biology Teacher" has published over seven dozen articles relevant to the history of biology in biology teaching. They are cataloged here and indexed by topic. As reflected in this archive, teachers adopt a historical approach for many pragmatic motivations: (1) to engage students, by contextualizing science culturally; (2) to…
Descriptors: Biology, Science History, Science Instruction, Science Teachers
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Gutierez, Sally Baricaua; Song, Jinwoong; Kim, Heui-Baik – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2019
This paper discusses the emergence of science education in the seventeenth century with the influences of Joseph Priestley on the Dissenting Academies. Primarily, this paper analyses Priestley's ideas from some of his letters to scientists during his time and his ideas from his books "Miscellaneous Observations Relating to Education"…
Descriptors: Science History, Science Education, Scientists, Science Education History
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Yuksel, Ibrahim; Eker, Merve – International Education Studies, 2021
This study aims to determine the knowledge levels in the Nature and History of Science course of the prospective teachers studying in the science education program and their views following the course. Six interview questions were asked to the pre-service teachers in the science education program about the Nature and History of Science course.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level
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Saritas, Davut; Polat, Mahmut – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2020
In this study, the effects of a documentary and a biographical film, which was watched in an informal environment, on the prospective science teachers' nature of science (NOS) views were examined. The study conducted according to the mixed research methodology. The data were obtained through the open-ended questionnaire prepared by considering the…
Descriptors: Films, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Scientific Principles
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Ford, Kenneth W. – Physics Teacher, 2018
Many teachers like to introduce the Bohr atom toward the end of an introductory physics course. This is an excellent idea, given the historic importance of Bohr's 1913 work, which provided the bridge from Planck's quantized interaction of matter and radiation (1900) to the full theory of quantum mechanics (1925-28). Unfortunately, the version of…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientists, Science History, Nuclear Physics
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Saritas, Davut – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2020
In this study, the experience of prospective science teachers, who watched a cinema film adapted from the life story of a well-known scientist for the first time in an informal environment, was examined. Answers of two questions were sought in the study: (1) What aspects of the nature of science did the prospective science teachers experience…
Descriptors: Documentaries, Films, Biographies, Scientific Principles
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Bhakthavatsalam, Sindhuja – Science & Education, 2019
Teaching false theories goes against the general pedagogical and philosophical belief that we must only teach and learn what is true. In general, the goal of pedagogy is taken to be epistemic: to gain knowledge and avoid ignorance. In this article, I argue that for realists and antirealists alike, epistemological and pedagogical goals have to come…
Descriptors: Theories, Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy, Science Instruction
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Askew, Jennifer; Gray, Ron – Science Teacher, 2016
British scientist John Dalton (1766-1844), French scientist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850), and Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856) are familiar to many chemistry students. Such students may understand the importance of Dalton's atomic theory, model how Gay-Lussac's law relates the pressure and the temperature of a gas, and use…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Molecular Structure, Scientific Concepts
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García-Carmona, Antonio; Acevedo-Díaz, José Antonio – Science & Education, 2017
This article presents a qualitative study, descriptive-interpretive in profile, of the effectiveness in learning about the nature of science (NOS) of an activity relating to the historical controversy between Pasteur and Liebig on fermentation. The activity was implemented during a course for pre-service secondary science teachers (PSSTs)…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Scientists, Scientific Concepts, Qualitative Research
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Galili, Igal – Science & Education, 2016
Physics textbooks often present items of disciplinary knowledge in a sequential order of topics of the theory under instruction. Such presentation is usually univocal, that is, isolated from alternative claims and contributions regarding the subject matter in the pertinent scientific discourse. We argue that comparing and contrasting the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses
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Seker, Hayati; Guney, Burcu G. – Science & Education, 2012
Although history of science is a potential resource for instructional materials, teachers do not have a tendency to use historical materials in their lessons. Studies showed that instructional materials should be adaptable and consistent with curriculum. This study purports to examine the alignment between history of science and the curriculum in…
Descriptors: Science History, Physics, Instructional Materials, Content Analysis
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Kahraman, Feray; Karatas, Faik Özgür – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2015
This study is a four-week section of ongoing attempts that aim to improve 6th grade students' understandings of the nature of science. The study was carried out in a sixth grade science and technology class at a rural middle school with 15 students on the basis of action research methodology. During the study, four different stories based on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Elementary School Students, Scientific Principles
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Numbers, Ronald L. – Science & Education, 2015
In histories of twentieth-century Darwinism few developments loom larger than the turn-of-the-century rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's genetic research and the later application of Mendelian principles in constructing so-called Neo-Darwinism. Virtually unknown is the equally enthusiastic embrace of Mendel by antievolutionists, who as early as…
Descriptors: Creationism, Genetics, Scientific Methodology, Scientific Research
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Griffard, Phyllis Baudoin; Mosleh, Tayseer; Kubba, Saad – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2013
The leap from science student to scientist involves recognizing that science is a tentative, evolving body of knowledge that is socially constructed and culturally influenced; this is known as The Nature of Science (NOS). The aim of this study was to document NOS growth in first-year premedical students who participated in a science book club as a…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Clubs, Interviews, Scientists
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