This teaching box engages middle and high school students in the Nature of Science - what it is and what it isn't - along with activities to ensure engagement and enhance science understanding explicitly.

Through a study of Ernest Rutherford's experiments with atomic structure, students develop a deeper understanding of the nature of science. The activity is taken from a linked article by the author that was published in the Journal of...

A great beginner's guide to examining the nature of science. Covers the basics of how science helps us to understand the surrounding world.

Answer five comprehension check questions about the nature of science in this interactive quiz.

Understand the processes behind the nature of science.

A collection of classroom lessons to help high school biology teachers teach evolution and the nature of science. This highly lab-oriented module is a very useful evolution and deep-time teaching site.

For this activity, students first read an essay entitled Science As Storytelling, then respond to the questions accompanying it. The purpose of the lesson plan is for students to develop a deeper understanding of science as more than...

A detailed overview of how scientists look at the world. Written in a way that the average person can understand, it opens up the world of science to everyone.

In this online course, students look at the big ideas and themes of biology and review how these ideas are used to develop scientific inquiry and research.

This California State University Northridge essay on the "Nature of Science, the Scientific Method, and Measurement" includes a historical perspective.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Presents science as a group effort and covers how science information is communicated and shared.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition and goal of science and how science advances.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition and goal of science and how science advances.

An introduction to science and how scientists solve problems using the scientific method. Highlights how the scientific method has been used in the past and present.

Use the scientific reasoning and critical thinking to take an in-depth look at the basics of biology.

This lesson incorporates inexpensive materials such as carton boxes, toilet paper roll tube, strings and toothpicks. It engages students to conduct pattern observation, prediction, testing and ends up with a model construction. It also...

This list of nature of science lessons from the Indiana University includes three links to lessons under the heading "Realm and Limits."

Review the nature of science with on-line flash cards.

This mini-lesson at the Evolution and Nature of Science Institute site from Indiana University provides a criteria by which students can evaluate an idea or explanation for scientific credibility.

The paper "Better Biology Teaching by EmphasizingEvolution & the Nature of Science" includes Modern Science & Uncertainty as one of the four major themes the authors advocate in the teaching of biology.

Review your knowledge of the nature of science as it relates to biology.

Find games and flashcards that students can use to learn the words associated with the scientific method.

Play a game of concentration by matching terms used in the scientific method to their proper description.

This resource is the homepage of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Find out everything you'd want to know for planning a visit and see what exhibitions are currently showing.