NASA
Water Works on a Blue Planet
Keep within a water budget. Learners find out that less than 2.5% of Earth's water is available to drink—and that there is a fixed amount of water. Scholars read an interesting article comparing the available water to a game of Monopoly...
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Story Behind the Science
Story Behind the Science: Search for Life's Origins [Pdf]
Article describing research done by scientists in their quest to understand the origins of life. Questions are posed throughout about the nature of scientific research.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian: Science: Week of 4 22 13: Intriguing Science Art
View images of beautiful scientific art and read the captions to learn what the images portray. These images are from a contest called the Cool Science Image contest.
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Bscs Helps Students, Parents, and Teachers Connect With Nature
BSCS Science Learning has developed this resource to help students, parents, and teachers get away from technology and formal learning and spend some time connecting with nature. Included are links to resources about the benefits of...
Other
The Ultimate Nature of Matter
Modern science is based on the idea of matter. This essay, by Alan Bradnam of the University of Sheffield (UK), discusses the impact of this idea on the world of science.
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: Natural History Museum Collections in the 21st Century
Discover why some people feel that natural history museums are more import now than they have ever been. Familiarize yourself with some of the challenges these museums are facing.
Story Behind the Science
Story Behind the Science: Just How Old Is Earth? [Pdf]
Article describing efforts in the 19th and 20th centuries to determine the Earth's age, particularly using naturally occurring radioactivity. It notes that scientific disciplines frequently overlap in the work they do. Questions are...
Story Behind the Science
Story Behind the Science: Charles Darwin [Pdf]
A detailed biography of Charles Darwin highlighting the events that shaped him as a scientist. Questions are posed throughout about the nature of scientific research.
Story Behind the Science
Story Behind the Science: Understanding Earth's Age [Pdf]
Article describing early efforts, beginning with Aristotle, to determine the Earth's age, and the influence of current culture on the acceptability of new and radical scientific theories. Questions are posed throughout about the nature...
Story Behind the Science
Story Behind the Science: Detection of Black Holes [Pdf]
Article outlining the scientific history behind the discovery of black holes. The writer discusses how scientific theories guide scientists in creating explanations for natural phenomena.
Story Behind the Science
Story Behind the Science: The Story of Dark Matter [Pdf]
The scientific history behind the discovery of dark matter. Questions are posed throughout about how theories are developed to provide possible explanations of natural phenomena.
Story Behind the Science
Story Behind the Science: Alfred Russel Wallace [Pdf]
A detailed biography of Alfred Russel Wallace, known especially for his theoretical work on evolution, which was published prior to Charles Darwin's own theory. Questions are posed throughout about the nature of scientific research.
Story Behind the Science
Story Behind the Science: The Work of Gregor Mendel [Pdf]
A detailed biography of Gregor Johann Mendel, famous for his foundational work in the field of genetics. Questions are posed throughout about the nature of scientific research.
Indiana University
Indiana U./ensi Sensi/better Biology Teaching
The paper "Better Biology Teaching by EmphasizingEvolution & the Nature of Science" includes Modern Science & Uncertainty as one of the four major themes the authors advocate in the teaching of biology.
Other
Understanding Society: Sociology as a Social Science Discipline
The unique nature of contemporary sociology as being innately interdisciplinary is discussed, and why this diversity is a good thing. Written by philosopher Daniel Little.
Other
The Philosophy of Social Sciences
This is an article on how philosophy can be used in the study of social sciences such as sociology and psychology. The nature of social sciences and how they differ from the natural sciences is also explored.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Exploring Nature
This article gives some excellent ways we can engage our children in exploring and learning about nature.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What's the Big Idea? Paleontology
Snapshot reference on paleontology explains how the fossil record drives this area of science.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Nature Conservancy and Cornell Lab Partnership
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and The Nature Conservancy comes together to form a partnership that takes YardMap to its next phase: Habitat Network.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Early Life
The aim of this article relates the nature of science to our current understanding of the origin of life and describe the formation of the atoms which build the Earth and its life.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Shark Has Virgin Birth
From ABC News in Science, Jennifer Viegas's article covers results from a recent study in which a female bonnethead shark was able to reproduce without the presence of a male shark.
BBC
Bbc: Science & Nature Hot Topics Computer Viruses
This BBC "hot topic" contains a description of the types of computer viruses. It also provides different ways to prevent or eliminate computer viruses.
University of Alaska
Alaska Science Forum: Plasma: The Fourth State of Matter
Good discussion on the conditions and natural existence of plasmas.
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: Nature Resets Body's Clock
Article reports on a recent study which found that people who spent a week in the woods experience a shift of two hours in their internal clocks. Includes a list of vocabulary words from the article.