Foundations of Science Education

BTNY/CHEM/GEO/MICR/PHYS/ZOOL 3570
Adam Johnston

Assignments and course materials:

• Syllabus
• Response papers
  • Response #1
  • Response #2
  • Response #3
  • Rubric for response papers
• Cross Section
• Misconception research
• Weblog discussions
• Final presentation

Labs:

• Bubble observation
• Hot chocolate stirring
• Swinging pendula & Falling copters
• Measuring a molecule

Readings:

• Electronic Reserve
• Other:
  • Umbrellaolgoy (class handout)
  • McComas, "The Principal Elements of the Nature of Science: Dispelling the Myths"
  • Settlage & Southerland, "The Nature of Science"
  • Johnston & Southerland, "Multiple Meanings of the Tentative Nature of Science"
  • Gould, S. J., "Evolution as Fact and Theory"
  • Notes on constructivism and conceptual change
  • Carlone, H.B. (2004), "The cultural production of science in reform-based physics: Girls' access, participation, and resistance" Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 41(4), 392-414.
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  • Ladson-Billings (2003). I used to love science . . . and then I went to school. Keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching. Philadelphia, PA.
  • Settlage, J. (2007). Demythologizing science teacher education: Conquering the false ideal of open inquiry. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 18(4), 461-467.
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  • Johnston, A. (in press). Demythologizing or dehumanizing? A response to Settlage and the ideals of open inquiry.
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Resources:

• Project iCAN
• Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science
• Understanding prejudice test
• From The Onion: "$50 Billion Science Thing"