ESCI 4430 Resources by Topic

Education Topics

• Curriculum scope and sequence
• What, Exactly, Is Science, Anyway?
• The Montillation of Traxoline
  
• Science Education as an Exercise in Foreign Affairs
• Traditional assessment
• The Montillation of Traxoline
  
• Science Education as an Exercise in Foreign Affairs
• History and philosophy of science
• What, Exactly, Is Science, Anyway?
• A wildly rambling philosophical statement from your instructor
• The Day the Universe Changed, Episode 5
  
• The Hebrew/Aristotelian/Medieval conception of the Earth and space
• Diagram of Aristotelian "crystal spheres"
• History of Astronomy web site at UCSD
• An excellent reference book for details of this history
• "Hands-on, minds-on" activities
• The Learning Cycle approach
• Basic science process skills
• Electronic technologies
• Ethical, cultural, and social issues
• Miscellaneous methods issues
• Bort, N. (2004). First day of school. Science Scope, 28(1), 25.

Types of Resources

• Curriculum standards documents
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Benchmarks for Science Literacy
  
• Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) for Middle School Science
• Gwinnnett County Academic Knowledge and Skills (AKS)
• 6th Grade Earth Science
• 7th Grade Life Science

• Videos
• Jurassic Park
  
• Availability for purchase
  
• Music-video montage of Velociraptor scenes from the Jurassic Park movies
• The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke
  
• Streaming site for The Day the Universe Changed