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• W277635780 abstract "I have successfully used a learning activity titled Year I Was Born to motivate students to conduct historical research and present key scientific discoveries from their birth year. The activity promotes writing, helps students enhance their scientific literacy, and also improves their attitude toward the learning of science. As one student stated, the assignment helped her understand the value of creative thought in various types of scientific research and illustrated for her the development of scientific concepts. After describing the main activity, this article offers six alternative pedagogical approaches to using it in the classroom. Scientific principles and natural laws aren't self evident. They must be discovered by active minds applying the methods and techniques of scientific research, including inquiry (Bronowski 1965; Dewey 1920). Scientists use three main approaches to learn about nature: discovery science (inductive reasoning), hypothesis-based science, and a combination of the two approaches. But why is such systematic activity important for our students? According to Bedrossian (2010, p. 39), Today's students take for granted the personal computers, MP3 players, cell phones, cars, airplanes, and trains, antibiotics, televisions, the availability of fruits and vegetables in grocery stores year-round, and other modern conveniences. In addition, they have no sense of what life was like before they were born. According to the National Science Education Standards, understanding both the history of science and its effect on personal and social perspectives gives students a foundation from which to build scientific knowledge and make informed decisions in their lives. (NRC 1996; cited in Bedrossian 2010, p. 40) In Year I Was Born learning activity, we ask students to research what significant scientific advances happened in their year of birth and present them to the class. Students rank their years' discoveries according to importance and must justify their rankings. Each student then selects two discoveries of particular interest to explain in more detail. During the presentations, each student argues that the year he or she was born was the most significant in the history of science. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Students not only explain which important discoveries were made, by whom, and how but also point out how these discoveries affected the development of science, technology, and society. The activity lets teachers offer useful bits of science history without sounding like history teachers or diverting students from the main goals of their classes, whether in general science, biology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, oceanography, nanotechnology, computer science, or others. During the activity, students are asked to start their presentations with statements such as: * The year I was born was the most significant year in the history of science. * Let me tell you about the year I was born: What a year of scientific discoveries! * I set out to discover what happened in science the year I was born, and I found amazing things. * What great things happened in the year I was born! During their presentations, students focus first on the events of their birth year. Then, while discussing the significance of the discoveries, they may cover events that happened before or after that year as well. Students thus create a timeline showing the development of a scientific idea or technology over time, from its precursors to its future development. For instance, my student Louis decided to present on Monsanto Company's NewLeaf Potato, genetically engineered in 1995, his birth year. The potato is scientifically important because it contains the gene for Bt toxin, a natural pesticide that provides in-plant protection from natural predators. The potato traces its success to the 1970 discovery of restriction enzymes by W. …" @default.
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