MN Educational Standards involving "History and Nature of Science"
• Minnesota and "history and nature of science" -- from EdSTAR (regional educational laboratory funded by US Dept of Education)
• SciMathMN advocates the national standards. See PDF chapter on grade 9-12 "history and nature of science."
• Download the (current!) Minnesota Standards in Science -- one chapter focuses on "History and Nature of Science"

Guidance
• A rough "how-to" on assembling a module.
• Some ideas ripe for development
• Resources on finding reliable information.
• A beginner's reading list on nature of science.
• SHiPS Resource Center

Sample Modules
• See modules created by other Minnesota teachers.
• circulation (and William Harvey) -- developed by Douglas as a high school teacher (63 MB PDF download)
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• maize and indigenous agriculture (thematic vignettes) [2005 student]
• acids and alkalis [2006 student]
• chemistry of indigo dye [2006 student]
• distillation and perfumes in 17th-century French courts (2003 student)
• chemistry of Egyptian cosmetics (2003 student)
• women in the Scientific Revolution (2003 student) -- Hildegard von Bingen/middle school astronomy and Maria Merian/insects
• microscopes (2005 student)
• light and color [2004 student]
• light as a particle or a wave: From Newton & Huygens (late 1600s) to Young's double slit expt (1803). [2005 student]
• discovery of vitamins and beriberi as a nutrient deficiency disease -- with cultural context, analysis of controlled experiments and error, role of chance, development of investigative skills (and a surprise ending!) -- by Douglas