Today many school students are shielded from one of the most important concepts in modern science: evolution. In engaging and conversational style, "Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science" provides a well-structured framework for understanding and teaching evolution. Written for teachers, parents, and community officials as well as scientists and educators, this book describes how evolution reveals both the great diversity and similarity among the Earth's organisms; it explores how scientists approach the question of evolution; and it illustrates the nature of science as a way of knowing about the natural world. In addition, the book provides answers to frequently asked questions to help readers understand many of the issues and misconceptions about evolution. The book includes sample activities for teaching about evolution and the nature of science. For example, the book includes activities that investigate fossil footprints and population growth that teachers of science can use to introduce principles of evolution. Background information, materials, and step-by-step presentations are provided for each activity. In addition, this volume: presents the evidence for evolution, including how evolution can be observed today; explains the nature of science through a variety of examples; describes how science differs from other human endeavors and why evolution is one of the best avenues for helping students understand this distinction; and answers frequently asked questions about evolution. "Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science" builds on the 1996 National Science Education Standards released by the National Research Council - and offers detailed guidance on how to evaluate and choose instructional materials that support the standards. Comprehensive and practical, this book brings one of today's educational challenges into focus in a balanced and reasoned discussion. It will be of special interest to teachers of science, school administrators, and interested members of the community.
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Today many school students are shielded from one of the most important concepts in modern science: evolution. In engaging and conversational style, Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science provides a well-structured framework for understanding and teaching evolution.
Written for teachers, parents, and community officials as well as scientists and educators, this book describes how evolution reveals both the great diversity and similarity among the Earth's organisms; it explores how scientists approach the question of evolution; and it illustrates the nature of science as a way of knowing about the natural world. In addition, the book provides answers to frequently asked questions to help readers understand many of the issues and misconceptions about evolution.
The book includes sample activities for teaching about evolution and the nature of science. For example, the book includes activities that investigate fossil footprints and population growth that teachers of science can use to introduce principles of evolution. Background information, materials, and step-by-step presentations are provided for each activity. In addition, this volume:
-- Presents the evidence for evolution, including how evolution can be observed today.
-- Explains the nature of science through a variety of examples.
-- Describes how science differs from other human endeavors and why evolution is one of the best avenues for helping students understand this distinction.
-- Answers frequently asked questions about evolution.
Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science builds on the 1996 National Science Education Standards released by the National Research Council--and offers detailed guidance on how to evaluate and choose instructional materials that support the standards.
Comprehensive and practical, this book brings one of today's educational challenges into focus in a balanced and reasoned discussion. It will be of special interest to teachers of science, school administrators, and interested members of the community.
Written for teachers, parents, and community officials as well as scientists and educators, this book describes how evolution reveals both the great diversity and similarity among the Earth's organisms; it explores how scientists approach the question of evolution; and it illustrates the nature of science as a way of knowing about the natural world. In addition, the book provides answers to frequently asked questions to help readers understand many of the issues and misconceptions about evolution.
The book includes sample activities for teaching about evolution and the nature of science. For example, the book includes activities that investigate fossil footprints and population growth that teachers of science can use to introduce principles of evolution. Background information, materials, and step-by-step presentations are provided for each activity. In addition, this volume:
-- Presents the evidence for evolution, including how evolution can be observed today.
-- Explains the nature of science through a variety of examples.
-- Describes how science differs from other human endeavors and why evolution is one of the best avenues for helping students understand this distinction.
-- Answers frequently asked questions about evolution.
Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science builds on the 1996 National Science Education Standards released by the National Research Council--and offers detailed guidance on how to evaluate and choose instructional materials that support the standards.
Comprehensive and practical, this book brings one of today's educational challenges into focus in a balanced and reasoned discussion. It will be of special interest to teachers of science, school administrators, and interested members of the community.
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Working Group on Teaching Evolution, National Academy of Sciences
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32 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science (Paperback)
..., it is an excellent, balanced presentation of evolution and how it should be taught in public schools. It presents clearly what most people, ..., fail to understand. That is the nature of scientific inquiry and what makes an idea qualify as a scientific theory... either imply or overtly state that there is much contradictory evidence left out in this book that would refute evolutionary theory and support what they call "creation science" No biologist would deny that there are problems with evolution and that there are many things that cannot be explained yet. This is the nature of science!!!!! As more evidence is collected, ideas and theories change. The overwhelming evidence supports evolution and that's why it's one of the fundamental ideas in science. Anyway, this is a great book for teachers, and every teacher who cares about scientific truth should read it.
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This book is an excellent book aimed at helping K-12 school teaching understand and teach evolution. It includes exercises on the scientific method, natural selection, and more. It also includes information for teachers that have never taught the subject and may have questions about teaching evolution.
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Minus 5 stars - this book is pure propaganda,
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This is one of the sorriest excuses for academic writing that I have ever read. I could cite a myriad of examples, but I'll state one: The book says, "The best available evidence suggests that life on earth began more than three and a half billion years ago." I was hoping to read about some of that so called evidence in this book. In fact, I've been searching for it for years from a wide variety of books and scientific papers. The mystery is solved: There is no evidence! The fact is that no real evidence exists to substantiate their claim and they know it. They even admit to their agenda within the book: to suppress any affinity for supernatural causes. This book is important, because it is what many school systems are furnishing their teachers and many teachers were raised on this garbage. However, the book isn't worth the ink that was used to print it based on the bad information within its pages. Read Jonathan Sarfati's 'Refuting Evolution' for a subject by subject dissection of this book. Read 'Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth' for technical proof that the earth is not that old. Read 'The Young Earth' for an easy to read summation of why the earth can't be billions of years old. There are so many good books out there that prove beyond all doubt that the earth can't be billions of years old. Or you can stick your head in the sand like the academy did...
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