Ten Great Ideas: What is Science?
Mr Hell's Science. |
YouTube 6 mins | |
| Whitey on the moon. Gil Scott-Heron | We need to see this before commenting on the use of Science. YouTube. 2 mins | |
| The Story of Physics | Courtesy of Dara O Briain's Science Club. YouTube 4 mins | |
| Sheldon gives a crash course in the history of Physics | YouTube 10 mins. Courtesy of The Big Bang Theory | |
| Why all our explanations are incomplete | The legendary Richard Feynman explains. YouTube. 7 mins | |
| SenseaboutScience | "Equipping people to make sense of Science and Evidence" |
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| Josh Ritter - Stuck to you | YouTube 2 mins | |
| What is the link between Science and War? | From the Physics and Ethics education project | |
Head-to-head randomized trials are mostly industry sponsored and almost always favor the industry sponsor. |
Link | Paper abstract |
| Why we are teaching science wrong, and how to make it right | Link | Active problem-solving confers a deeper understanding of science than does a standard lecture. But some university lecturers are reluctant to change tack. Text-based, from Nature.com |
| How a few scientists transformed the way we think about disease | Link | Things we would still believe if we didn’t have science and what science has to say. Youtube. Via TED. 5 mins. |
Myths on the Nature of Science |
Link | Text-based from amasci.com |
| My best science lesson: why history is essential to engage students | Link | Blogpost from theguardian.com |
| Biochemist Kary Mullis talks about the basis of modern science: the experiment. | Sharing tales from the 17th century and from his own backyard-rocketry days, Mullis celebrates the curiosity, inspiration and rigor of good science in all its forms. | |
| An experiment on a bird in an airpump | Courtesy of the The National Gallery of England. Referred to in the talk above. | |
| Teacher guide to using the image above | Along with a few other related paintings | |
| Why do people 'do' Science? | Series of presentations from various people who have chosen a career in Science | |
| What is Science? | YouTube. 3 mins. Courtesy of Symphony of Science
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| Teaching Confirmation Bias | ||
| What is Science – letter from Dawkins to daughter | "To my dearest daughter, now that you are ten, I want to write to you about something that is important to me." |
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| How Science works | Richard Dawkin's explanation. Brainpickings.org and YouTube | |
| The Scientific Method Vs The Actual Method | tongue-in-cheek cartoon |