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"

Sample Modules
• on 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!)
• modules created by other Minnesota teachers
• on circulation (and William Harvey) (63 MB PDF download)
• on maize and indigenous agriculture (thematic vignettes) [2005 student]
• on light as a particle or a wave: From Newton & Huygens (late 1600s) to Young's double slit expt (1803). [2005 student]

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