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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine some of Miller's historical sources, biographies of key players and transcripts of the Salem Witch trials themselves. They also read a summary of the historical events in Salem and study a timeline. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate the essay as a genre of writing. They look at a variety of essay types and determine how they are based in rhetorical tradition. They compare the writing styles of Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass while examining the persuasive appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos. They write an individual essay. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students determine the difference between a geocentric universe and a heliocentric universe. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students list differences in the diagrams of a geocentric universe and a heliocentric universe. They students describe the religious impact of this change on man's conception of the universe and man's place within it. Students describe the impact of the Copernican view on cosmology of the late sixteenth and seventeenth century. Full Review »
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- 9th - 11th
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Students conduct research about: Empedocles, a Greek philosopher, was among the first to make sense of the seemingly infinite forms of matter. The most familiar forms of matter of course are solids, liquids, gases, and fire. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students use a quotation from Einstein as a reference to categorize their descriptions as either Newtonian or Aristotelian. They discuss the idealized nature of the Newtonian approach. Students describe the events they observe when an object is dropped. Full Review »
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- 9th - 11th
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Students complete a worksheet about some of the natural philoshophers in history. They use graph paper and create a timeline with the dates of birth and names of a list of natural philosophers. They list four questions concerning life and the universe that they would wish to answer and explain. Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students read and discuss Scientific Revolution information sheet and the diagram concerning the causes of the Scientific Revolution. They construct a timeline including Aristotle, Democritus, Copernicus, Bacon and Descartes along with a brief sentence about the ideas of each man. Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students read and discuss Boyle's Mechanical Philosophy and his rejection of Aristotle's theory of "Forms and Qualities." They answer a given set of questions and discuss these with the class. Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students discuss the difference between the Baconian inductive method and the Aristotelian deductive approaches. They complete a given set of questions then discuss them with the class. Full Review »

