Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in the Sciences

Author Carolyn Johnson

Publisher Greenwood Publishing Group

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Author

Carolyn Johnson

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Greenwood Publishing Group

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Copyright

2003

ISBN13

9780313072185

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Grade Level

College Freshman - College Senior

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Presents numerous Web sites with primary source documents and authoritative data in all areas of science. Activities and questions are designed to motivate students to interact with the site, read and analyze the material, and draw their own conclusions.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
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Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Acknowledgments, Permissions, and Dedications.
Introduction.
Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Eras.
"Hippocratic Oath" and "The Law of Hippocrates" (Fifth Century B.C.).
"On Experimental Science" Bacon, Roger (1268).
Manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci (1469–1518).
"Dedication" to The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies Copernicus, Nicholaus (1543).
Seventeenth Century.
"Preface" to Novum Organum Bacon, Francis (1620).
Eighteenth Century.
The Linnean Correspondence (1735–78).
"Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences" Hume, David (1742).
"Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida … Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions …" Bartram, William (1791).
Nineteenth Century.
Journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (1804–6).
Paper Dinosaurs: A Hypertext Catalog of Rare Documents (1824–1969).
"The Chemical History of a Candle: Lecture One" Faraday, Michael (1827).
Alfred Russel Wallace Web Site (1843–1913).
Excerpts from "Letter Concerning the Education of Women Physicians" Blackwell, Elizabeth (1851).
Excerpts from on the Growth of Plants in Closely Glazed Cases Ward, Nathaniel B. (1852).
Alexander Graham Bell Notebooks Project (1875–).
The Bible and Science (1889).
"On a New Radioactive Substance Contained in Pitchblende" Curie, Pierre and Curie, Marie S. (1898).
"Rays Emitted by Compounds of Uranium and of Thorium" Curie, Marie Sklodowska (1898).
Early Twentieth Century.
"Star Spectral Classification Chart" Annie Jump Cannon and Harvard University (1918–).
"What Is the Theory of Re
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