Natural History and the Nature of Science |

The purpose of this study is to explore the characteristics of the on-line teaching materials on the websites of natural history museums particularly with regards to their educational perspectives, focusing on the nature of science. A total of twelve on-line resources from the four well established museums used in this study were selected as representative informal science teaching materials. The analyses highlighted the potential of natural history museums as an informal science learning venues.

Download Full-text

The Nature of Science at Informal Education Settings: Natural History Museums

Key Engineering Materials - On the Convergence of Bio-, Information-, Enrivonmental-, Energy-, Space- and Nano-Technolgies ◽

10.4028/0-87849-958-x.387 ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 387-390

Author(s):

Myeong Kyeong Shin

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Nature Of Science ◽

Informal Education ◽

Natural History Museums ◽

History Museums

Download Full-text

Darwin’s Error: Using the Story of Pangenesis to Illustrate Aspects of Nature of Science in the Classroom

The American Biology Teacher ◽

10.1525/abt.2012.74.3.5 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 74 (3) ◽

pp. 151-156 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

William F. McComas

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Nature Of Science ◽

Scientific Knowledge ◽

Charles Darwin ◽

Inductive Reasoning

This article discusses a number of aspects of the nature of science that can be illustrated by considering the development of pangenesis, a principle proposed by Charles Darwin to describe the rules of inheritance, explain the source of new variation, and solve other natural history puzzles. Pangenesis – although false – can be used to illustrate important nature of science ideas such as the need for empirical evidence, the use of inductive reasoning, the creative component of science, the role of bias and subjectivity, social and personal influences on science, and the notion that scientific knowledge is tentative but durable, yet self correcting.

Download Full-text

Analyzing the Nature of Science that was Reflected on the Exhibition Panel of Evolution House at Natural History Museums: Centered on Seodaemun Museum of Natural History and the Field Museum in Chicago

BIOLOGY EDUCATION ◽

10.15717/bioedu.2012.40.2.195 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

pp. 195-208

Author(s):

정감순 ◽

Byeong Mee Min ◽

Dong Ryeul Kim ◽

Yeon-A Son

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Nature Of Science ◽

Natural History Museums ◽

Field Museum ◽

History Museums

Download Full-text

How is the moral stance related to the intentional stance and group thinking?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19002413 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Hannes Rakoczy

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Social Cognitive ◽

Intentional Stance ◽

Cognitive Capacities ◽

Shared Intentionality ◽

History Of ◽

Group Thinking ◽

Moral Stance

Abstract The natural history of our moral stance told here in this commentary reveals the close nexus of morality and basic social-cognitive capacities. Big mysteries about morality thus transform into smaller and more manageable ones. Here, I raise questions regarding the conceptual, ontogenetic, and evolutionary relations of the moral stance to the intentional and group stances and to shared intentionality.

Download Full-text

On the assembly and structural modulation of lens fiber junctions

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100110805 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

pp. 110-113

Author(s):

E.L. Benedetti ◽

I. Dunia ◽

Do Ngoc Lien ◽

O. Vallon ◽

D. Louvard ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Molecular Weight ◽

Natural History ◽

Intercellular Junctions ◽

Eye Lens ◽

Membrane Domains ◽

Functional Polymorphism ◽

Lens Fiber ◽

The Past ◽

Structural Modulation ◽

Biochemical Difference

In the eye lens emerging molecular and structural patterns apparently cohabit with the remnants of the past. The lens in a rather puzzling fashion sums up its own natural history and even transient steps of the differentiation are memorized. A prototype of this situation is well outlined by the study of the lenticular intercellular junctions. These membrane domains exhibit structural, biochemical and perhaps functional polymorphism reflecting throughout life the multiple steps of the differentiation of the epithelium into fibers and of the ageing process of the lenticular cells.The most striking biochemical difference between the membrane derived from the epithelium and from the fibers respectively, concerns the presence of the 26,000 molecular weight polypeptide (MP26) in the latter membranes.

Download Full-text