Natural Science Disciplines - Education
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Coordinating the effects of multiple variables: a skill fundamental to scientific thinking.

14 Mar 2009 The skill of predicting outcomes based on simultaneous effects of multiple factors was examined. Over five sessions, 91 sixth graders engaged this task either individually or in pairs and either preceded or followed by six sessions on the more ... Read more...

[Comparative analysis of the efficacy of a playful-narrative program to teach mathematics at pre-school level]

30 Jan 2009 Comparative analysis of the efficacy of a playful-narrative program to teach mathematics at pre-school level. In this paper, the effectiveness of a programme comprising several components that are meant to consolidate mathematical concepts and ... Read more...

Sympathetic science: Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, and the passions of Victorian naturalists.

30 Dec 2008 This essay examines the complex tangle of emotional and scientific attachments that linked Darwin and botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker. Analyzing their roles as husbands, fathers, and novel readers demonstrates that possessing and expressing sympathy ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Natural Science Disciplines - Education'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Science-savvy physicians. 2 Sep 2009
• Science for future physicians. 3 Jun 2009
• Coordinating the effects of multiple variables: a skill fundamental to scientific thinking. 14 Mar 2009
• The next innovation revolution. 25 Feb 2009
• Underrepresentation in the real world. 2 Feb 2009
• [Comparative analysis of the efficacy of a playful-narrative program to teach mathematics at pre-school level] 30 Jan 2009
• Sympathetic science: Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, and the passions of Victorian naturalists. 30 Dec 2008
• Science on the move: recent trends in the history of Early Modern science. 30 Dec 2008
• Enhancing interdisciplinary, mathematics, and physical science in an undergraduate life science program through physical chemistry. 30 Dec 2008
• U.S. dental school applicants and enrollees, 2006 and 2007 entering classes. 30 Oct 2008
• Graduate entry to medicine in Iran. 9 Oct 2008
• Effects of role models from films on short-term ratings of intent, interest, and self-assessment of ability by high school youth: a study of gender-stereotyped academic subjects. 30 Mar 2008
• From farm and family to career naturalist: the apprenticeship of Vernon Bailey. 28 Feb 2008
• Of doctors, dreamers and soothsayers: the interlinking worlds of Julius Caesar Scaliger and Auger Ferrier. 30 Dec 2007
• [Beeckman's medical learning by reading] 30 Dec 2007
• Erciyes University students' knowledge about AIDS: differences between students of natural and social science. 30 Dec 2007
• Application of a sensemaking approach to ethics training in the physical sciences and engineering. 10 Dec 2007
• The influence of "new science" on dental education: current concepts, trends, and models for the future. 30 Mar 2007
• [School museums, collections, and elementary teaching of the natural sciences in late XIX century Argentina] 30 Dec 2006
• Inquiry learning. Teaching and assessing knowledge integration in science. 23 Aug 2006

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Technical information about 'Natural Science Disciplines'

Definition: The sciences dealing with processes observable in nature.

Descriptor UI: D010811

Alternative terms: Natural Science Disciplines; Discipline, Natural Science; Disciplines, Natural Science; Natural Science Discipline; Natural Sciences; Natural Science; Science, Natural; Sciences, Natural; Physical Sciences; Physical Science; Science, Physical; Sciences, Physical;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H01;

History Note: 2009 (1998)

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