| Description |
1 online resource (410 pages) |
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Introduction; 1 -- The Scientific Method Ain't What It Used to Be; 2 -- Learning About the Nature of Science With Case Studies; 3 -- Can Case Studies Be Used to Teach Critical Thinking?; 4 -- Critical Thinking; Section II: Historical Cases; 5 -- Childbed Fever: A 19th-Century Mystery; 6 -- Mystery of the Blue Death: John Snow and Cholera; 7 -- Salem's Secrets: On the Track of the Salem Witch Trials; 8 -- The Bacterial Theory of Ulcers: A Nobel-Prize-Winning Discovery; Section III: Experimental Design; 9 -- Lady Tasting Coffee; 10 -- Memory Loss in Mice; 11 -- Mom Always Liked You Best |
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12 -- PCBs in the Last Frontier13 -- The Great Parking Debate; 14 -- Poison Ivy: A Rash Decision; Section IV: The Scientific Method Meets Unusual Claims; 15 -- Extrasensory Perception?; 16 -- A Need for Needles:Does Acupuncture ReallyWork?; 17 -- Love Potion #10: HumanPheromones at Work?; 18 -- The "Mozart Effect"; 19 -- Prayer Study: Science orNot?; 20 -- The Case of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker; Section V: Science and Society; 21 -- Moon to Mars: To BoldlyGo ... or Not; 22 -- And Now What, Ms. Ranger? The Search for the Intelligent Designer; 23 -- The Case of the Tainted Taco Shells |
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24 -- Medicinal Use of Marijuana25 -- Amanda's Absence: Should Vioxx Be Kept Off the Market?; 26 -- Sex and Vaccination; Section VI: Science and the Media; 27 -- Tragic Choices: Autism, Measles, and the MMR Vaccine; 28 -- Ah-choo! Climate Change and Allergies; 29 -- Rising Temperatures: The Politics of Information; 30 -- Eating PCBs From Lake Ontario; Section VII: Ethics and the Scientific Process; 31 -- Mother's Milk Cures Cancer?; 32 -- Cancer Cure or Conservation; 33 -- A Rush to Judgment?; 34 -- How a Cancer Trial Ended in Betrayal; 35 -- Bringing Back Baby Jason: To Clone or Not to Clone |
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36 -- Selecting the Perfect Baby: The Ethics of "Embryo Design"37 -- Studying Racial Bias: Too Hot to Handle?; 38 -- Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Project; List of Contributors; Selected Bibliography onCase Study Teaching inScience; Appendix A: CaseSummary and Overview; Appendix B: AlignmentWith National ScienceEducation Standards forScience Content, Grades9-12; Appendix C:Evaluating StudentCasework; Index |
| Summary |
Stories give life and substance to scientific methods and provide an inside look at scientists in action. Case studies deepen scientific understanding, sharpen critical-thinking skills, and help students see how science relates to their lives. In Science Stories, Clyde Freeman Herreid, Nancy Schiller, and Ky Herreid have organized case studies into categories such as historical cases, science and the media, and ethics and the scientific process |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Science -- Study and teaching -- Case studies
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Critical thinking -- Study and teaching
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Critical thinking -- Study and teaching
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Science -- Study and teaching
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schiller, Nancy
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Herreid, Ky
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| ISBN |
9781936959914 |
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1936959917 |
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