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... QH362.T435 1998 576.8′071—dc21 98-16100 CIP Printed in the United States of America Copyright 1998 by the National Academy of Sciences All rights reserved Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science ... research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a ... Academy of Sciences The 1997 Annual Fund of the National Academy of Sciences, whose donors include NAS members and other science-interested individuals We also extend special thanks to members of the

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... discretion 105 A parallel: the moral reading of the American Constitution? 108 Spoiling – ‘legal’ cheating 112 The spoiling example 113 The issue of generality 115 Finding the real rules? 116 Some other ... sport 155 The persistence of value 160 The remaking of value-formulations 163 The denial of the coherence of relativism 167 The postmodern challenge: incredulity towards metanarratives 168 Understanding ... judgement 141 Thinking about the moral laboratory 144 Problem: the moral nature of sport? 145 Outcomes 148 Reasons for participation in sport 150 Normative and motivating reasons 151 Normative

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... discretion 105 A parallel: the moral reading of the American Constitution? 108 7 Spoiling, cheating and playing the game 112 Spoiling – ‘legal’ cheating 112 The spoiling example 113 The issue of generality ... generality 115 Finding the real rules? 116 Some other cases 117 Trang 8Cheating and rule-following 118 What is wrong with cheating? 121 Why obey rules? 122 Conclusion to Part II: the moral imperative ... sport 155 The persistence of value 160 The remaking of value-formulations 163 The denial of the coherence of relativism 167 The postmodern challenge: incredulity towards metanarratives 168 Understanding

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... of evolution to the most Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science 14• Trang 10fundamental level The sequence of the chemical bases in DNA both specifies the order of amino acids in ... About Evolution and the Nature of Science 6• Scientists examining the head of Chasmosaurus mariscalensis hone their understanding of nature by comparing it against observations of the world. Clockwise ... four centuries The central feature of this revolution has been the abandon-ment of one notion about stability after another: that the earth was the center of the universe, that the world’s living

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... movements of heavenly bodies, the struc-ture of matter, the shaping of mountains and valleys, the changes in the positions of continents over time, and the diversity of living things The statements of ... the rest of the class period, the stu-dents investigate the fossils They soon realize that the number of ribs is related to the size of the fossils, so the groups focus on measuring the lengths ... of their metabolism The gene that codes for cytochrome C gradually has changed over the course of evolution The greater the differences in the DNA bases that code for the enzyme, the longer the

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... of the earth system • Origin and evolution of the universe The discussions of the origin and evolution of the earth system and the universe relate evolution to universal physical processes: The ... Evolution of the Earth System The sun, the earth, and the rest of the solar sys-tem formed from a nebular cloud of dust and gas 4.5 billion years ago The early earth was very different from the planet ... contain oxygen. The Origin and Evolution of the Universe The origin of the universe remains one of the greatest questions in science The “big bang” theory places the origin between 10 and 20 billion

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... instead of the old batch on the renewed fly population at the farmer’s barn Nevertheless, despite the freshness of the solution, only a few of the flies died The same batch of the insecticide was then ... for Science as Inquiry (pages 145-148 for grades 5-8 and pages 175-176 for grades 9-12), History and Nature of Science Standards (pages 170-171 for grades 5-8 and pages 200-204 for grades 9-12), ... Concepts and Processes (pages 116-118) Chapter 3 of this document also contains a discussion of the nature of science Materials and Equipment • 1 cube for each group of four students (black-line

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... the National Science Education Standards. 9 Evolution: Inquiries into Biology and Earth Science by BSCS 1992 Seattle: Videodiscovery, pp 49-53 and pp. 211-221. 10 Standards, p 117. 11 Earth Science ... (ESCP) 1973. Investigating the Earth rev ed Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. 12 Please review pages 143-148 of the National Science Education Standards. 13 Investigating the Earth 14 Investigating the ... by the effects of external conditions, or of habit, or of the volition of the plant itself The author of the ‘Vestiges of Creation’ would, I presume, say that, after a certain unknown number of

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... origins of life as an aspect of the theory of evolution While the subject of life’s origins is within the province of biology, the sci-entific community does not consider the subject as part of evolutionary ... evolutionary theory, which assumes the existence of life and is directed to an explanation of how life evolved after it originated The theo-ry of evolution does not presuppose either the absence or the ... Court (1981)) 3 In 1982, in McLean v Arkansas Board of Education, a federal court held that a “balanced treatment” statute violated the Establishment Clause of the U.S Constitution The Arkansas science.”

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... 2012) The Nature of Science and NGSS The nature of science is included in the Next Generation Science Standards Here we present the NOS Matrix The basic understandings about the nature of science ... support the development of an understanding of the nature of science in the context of the Next Generation Science Standards The approach centered on eight understandings for the nature of science ... Understanding of the Nature of Science Now, the science teacher’s question: How do I put the elements of practices and crosscutting concepts together to help students understand the nature of science?

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... words: mastering the craft of science writing / Elise Hancock. p cm. ISBN 0-8018-7329-0 — ISBN 0-8018-7330-4 1 Technical writing I Title. T11 H255 2003 808 ′ 0665—dc21 2002011065 A catalog record ... United States of America on acid-free paper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4363 www.press.jhu.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication ... past the point where I paid it any mind So I sat and waited while she finished Finally, she pulled out the page, gathered it together with one or two others and, still not looking up, passed them

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... 9Appendix 741Trang 11THE first Edition of the following Work was printed in the end of the1 [ 1 ] year 1775, and in the beginning of the year 1776 Through the greaterpart of the Book, therefore, ... Instruction of Part Third Of the Expense of Supporting the Dignity of the CHAPTER II Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society 632 Part Third Of the Funds or Sources of Revenue ... is the produce of the joint labour of a great multitude of workmen The shepherd, the sorter of the wool,the wool-comber or carder, the dyer, the scribbler, the spinner, the weaver,the fuller, the

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... lens to the meaning of the text (Gee, 1991) Whatever the approach to analyzing the data, the central defin-ing feature of this type of qualitative research is that the data are in the form of a ... communication, or a combination thereof are always included in support of the findings of the study These quotes and excerpts contribute to the descriptive nature of qualitative research Trang ... heightened, allowing the researcher to intuit or see the essence of the phenome-non Examples of phenomenological studies include Howard’s (1994) study of the experience of first-time computer

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... in 2012 Book 1 tells the story of five pieces of the Seal of Solomon Trang 3Book 1- Part 1- The Beginning of an End October 1, 2012 81 days remaining 1 Another plane landed on the San Francisco’s ... West They consist of 6 best people, Arthur could find Their main aim is to find 5 pieces of the Seal of Solomon, so they can stop the demon that is responsible for the end of the world in 2012 ... day, there were lots of people everywhere rushing to their gates or trying to get accustomed to the new time zone Some of them had just come to the city, while the others were waiting to either

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... enBd J1 Bugann Bb; Ha caeTy W BO Mrne TĨowwusan Ha cTone HeHacernHb1l cTapuk u3 Mongasuu “122 Sb ZN ON 12 Trang 11There was an Old Man of Madras, Who rode ona cream-coloured ass; But the length ... KpbTCb1 CTrpb1371 nd7IbTO U ewe Koe-wTo, TToka cTapeu apeman Kak y6uTeIV sà cé ee Saf — L¬>'` _— 18 Trang 17There was an Old Man of the West, Who wore a pale plum-coloured vest; When they ... Say There was an Old Man of the Wrekin Whose shoes made a horrible creaking: But they said, ‘Tell us whether, Your shoes are of leather, Or of what, you Old Man of the Wrekin?’ Bawmaku cTapuKkawku

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... to a bower of verdure, a home for the birds and the song of the nightingale The grandchildren have gone to the four corners of the globe, and are now the generation of workers-some in the far East ... the home of the rarest and most beautiful birds So grateful were the birds for their resting-place that they chose one end of the island as a special spot for the laying of their eggs and the raising ... thrilled even the souls of the natives; and as dusk fell upon the seabound strip of land the women and children would come to "the square" and listen to the evening notes of the birds of golden

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... awaited thecommands of his master."They said not the direction of their course, my liege; 'tis thought to reconnoitre either the movements of theEnglish, or to ascertain the cause of the delay of ... sister, an office bequeathed to him under the hand and seal of the earl, his nephew The character of the Lady Isabella was formed; that of her brother, a child of eight, of course was not; and thedeep, ... fresh with the breeze of day, as he gazes on thecloudless blue of the circling sky, or the dazzling rays of the morning sun, as the hum of happy life is roundhim who is there thinks of the silence,

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... day? Could they make one do per day by writing their name on it? They could There are loads of other ways of both saving the company money and respecting the planet Brainstorm them 91 Be fast ... flight call Meditate on the plane Arrive refreshed Trang 6link to the actions for the quality improvement team.50 The mythologies of the start-up are entrancing: tiny offices behind delis, lock-up ... business magazines and the account manager had an indifferent attitude 64 The trouble is for too many of the employees the only thing worth mentioning about the annual conference is the free beer Change

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... a peculiar bird-like turn, a sort of liquid warble, produced by touching the tongue to the roof of the mouth at short intervals in the midst of the music the reader probably remembers how ... looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her ... soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony between the shoulders and then turned tail and ran like an antelope. Tom chased the traitor home,...

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... proof goes as follows. By definition 3 = 1 + 1 + 1. Also by definition, 3ì3 = 3+3+3. Hence 3ì3 = (1+ 1 +1) + (1+ 1 +1) + (1+ 1 +1) , which by the associativity of addition, equals 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 ... possible that they would have prevented the discovery of one of the most beautiful theories in the whole of mathematics: the theory of elliptic functions, which leads naturally to the theory of modular ... value of k for which the term t k is nonzero is the term with k = 1. Hence we begin by shifting the origin of the sum as follows:  k≥ 1 1 (2k + 1) (2k + 3)! =  k≥0 1 (2k − 1) (2k + 1) ! . The ratio...

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