Standard+B+Nature+of+Science


 * Post Standard B Resources here.**
 * Each resource will include a title, link to the resource, a short description of the resource, and grade level(s)**.

// **Content Standard**: Students in Wisconsin will understand that science is ongoing and inventive, and that scientific understandings have changed over time as new evidence is found. // // Students will realize that scientific knowledge is developed from the activities of scientists and others who work to find the best possible explanations of the natural world. Researchers and those who are involved in science follow a generally accepted set of rules to produce scientific knowledge that others can confirm with experimental evidence. This knowledge is public, replicable, and undergoing revision and refinement based on new experiments and data. //
 * // Rationale //**

Andy Meeks

Title: Middle School Chemistry Link: http://www.middleschoolchemistry.com/ Description: A website that teaches students about science and chemistry with a hands-on inquiry-based approach. The website offers really interesting and well done inquiry led experiments for students and teachers to use. Not only are the students learning about chemistry, they are also learning about how science works at the same time. This website is also equipped with a number of really helpful and interesting videos to aid students in understanding content. Grade: 6-8

Annie Anderson **Title**: What is Science? **Link**: [] **Description**: Video desigined to clarify what exactly science is and what qualifies as scientific evidence. It emphasizes the need to question things and find evidence to support to the answers we develop. It defines science as "Mankind's ongoing, collective and systematic attempt to accurately define reality". It also addresses the role of religion & belief and how it differs from science and evidence.
 * Grade**: 6-8

Kari Reuter
 * Title**: Everyday Science: Discovering the Scientific Method
 * Link**: []
 * Description:** Discovery Education is an online subscription resource for videos, teacher guides, lesson plans, quizzees, etc regarding an infinite number of topics. In this video, students will explore the scientific method by observing everyday occurences scientifically. Observation of a rainbow turns into an explanation of the components of "white light" as they are separated by a prism. Ice cubes floating in a glass of water illustrate the concepts of density and volume. A rotating machine run by the heat of candles exemplifies the concept of convection. Musical instruments show that the size of a space determines the pitch of sound created in it. Join Tom and Rosa, two young visitors to the house of the wise Mrs. Williamson as they reveal the mysteries behind everyday science. Additionally, there is a teacher's guide and quiz available.
 * Grades:** 3-5

Michelle Arnett
 * Title:** Bill Nye the Science Guy
 * Link:** []
 * Description:** Bill Nye the Science Guy is my all time favorite childhood memory! I watched him in science class during my late elementary years. In this video, Bill Nye shows how science is ongoing, evolving, and replicable. It shows several different kids completing different experiments and how it's evolved and then he completes two to show that science is replicable. There are a lot of different episodes available through You Tube; however this one really fits into Standard B.
 * Grades:** K-5

Amy Rice **Title:** Sid the Science Kid **Link:** [] **Description:** The //Sid the Science Kid// website for teachers is designed to further develop children's natural wonder and build a strong foundation for early science exploration. Online and offline activities motivate children to practice and internalize scientific methodology: "Observe! Compare! Contrast! Describe!" The complementary sites are crafted to support a collaborative learning experience between child and adult and offers features that help adult mentors to support and participate in the child's learning process. **Grades:** PreK-1

Sara Kowle
 * Title:** The Nature of Science: an Activity for the First Day of Class
 * Link: @http://www.scienceteacherprogram.org/genscience/Choi04.html**
 * Description:** This activity is designed to give students a hands-on experience with the concept that science itself is hands-on, and that it is a dynamic, collaborative discipline that required ingenuity and adaptation to changes in knowledge as new discoveries are made and new technologies are generated. Each student is given 4 Tangram-like puzzle pieces (geometric shapes that can be arranged multiple ways) and are given no further instruction. Most students will experiment with what they can make with the pieces. The lesson plan does not advise giving specific instructions at this point, but I think if you don't advise students to attempt to build a square, the meaning of the next part of the activity will be lost. That next part involves giving each student one additional piece, and explaining that this is what happens when science discovers new information that must be incorporated into an existing theory or practice - science must adapt and see how that knowledge fits in to the overall puzzle, finding what new possibilities exist (which they could act out with free-form arrangement) or re-establishing a harmonious, continuous view of a problem/disciplinary area (which might be well-illustrated by having them try to build a square again, which is possible with 4 and 5 pieces. This activity serves as both a commentary on the nature of science and as a first puzzle for a year of puzzle activities encouraging students to be outside-the-box problem-solvers.
 * Grades:** K-12 (This activity was designed by a high school teacher, but I think it could be modified and used at any level to teach students about the nature of science.)

Mike Weber This kids book tells the story of how we learned the earth is round. It includes activities. "Lauber explains how perceptions of the earth's shape have changed since early times, describes the methods of reasoning that led the early Greeks to conclude the earth is spherically shaped, and shows children how to re-create this logic for themselves.A simple explanation of a rather complex idea."
 * Standard B**
 * Title:** How We Learned The Earth Is Round
 * Link:** http://www.amazon.com/Learned-Earth-Round-Lets-Read-Find-Out/dp/0064451097
 * Description**: I was trying to find a book for kids that resembles “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” which is a higher level book about how generally excepted ideas change when new information is present. A great example of this is that humans used to believe the earth was flat.
 * Grade**:1-5?

Nicole Ann Isaacs
 * Title: ** What is Science?
 * Link: ** []
 * Description: ** Children will read //What is Science// by R. Dorlich. They then reflect on the diversity of science and what scientists do. A collaborative science center anchor chart is created with drawing by students for what they think science is and how it reflects our natural world.
 * Grades: ** K-2

Leilei Song Title: Nature of Science Link: [] Description: It is a teacher resource site for how to teach nature of science. It also include some resource link for the lesson. Grade: K-8

Siggy Speter Description: A kid-friendly overview of the Scientific method that will hopefully help students understand their role in science, as well as the role and responsibilities of scientists in advancing new science. The website included a quiz which might be helpful in assessing for student understanding.
 * Title**: Scientific Method
 * Link**: http://www.biology4kids.com/files/studies_scimethod.html
 * Grade**: 4-8

Melissa Millard
 * Title:** Nature of Science Review Games
 * Link:** []
 * Description:** Really FUN! Students can use their choice of many different types of review games to solidify their knowledge of the scientific method, tools used in science, and how the knowledge is applicable and useful in everyday life.
 * Grade:** 5-8

Michelle Sasse
 * Title**: 10 Inventions That Changed The World
 * Link**: []
 * Description**: This article gives students 10 inventions that have greatly impacted the world they live in. This article gives students real life inventions that are used in our world today. Students can use this article to look at how some of these inventions have evolved into what they are today.
 * Grade**: 5-8