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Enabling!Scientific!Understanding!through!
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Flensburg*Studies*on*the*History*and*Philosophy*of*Science**
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Flensburg!University!Press!
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FLENSBURG!UNIVERSITY!PRESS!
legal!representative:!
Universitt!Flensburg!
Auf!dem!Campus!1!
DJ24943!Flensburg!
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Layout!and!typeset:!!
Sebastian!Korff,!Flensburg!
Printed!in!Mnster,!MV!Verlag!
ISBN!978J3J939858J29J4!
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All!rights!reserved.!This!book!may!not!be!reproduced!in!whole!or!in!part,!in!
any!form!without!written!permission!from!the!publishers.!!
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!Copyright!!2013!The!authors!

Contents!
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Introduction!.................................................................................................................................................!5!
WERNER!REINHART:!About!Border!Crossers!and!Team!Players!...........................................!11!

I.!Historical!Episodes!
BEATE!CERANSKI:!Helium!from!Radium.!Looking!at!a!crucial!experiment!in!early!
radioactivity!research!......................................................................................................................!15!
SEBASTIAN!KORFF:!Beyond!the!GeigerJMller!Counter!............................................................!31!
DON!METZ:!From!the!Real!to!the!Surreal:!The!Instruments!of!Charles!Wheatstone!!
and!the!Blending!of!Science,!Art!and!Culture!........................................................................!43!
MARTIN!PANUSCH:!Rebuilding!Millikans!Oil!Drop!Apparatus!...............................................!55!
MAXIMILLIAN!WOTTRICH:!Unidentified!Apparatus!by!Johann!Michael!Ekling!................!61!
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II.!Educational!Applications!
ELIZABETH!CAVICCHI:!Learning!Science!as!Explorers:!Historical!Resonances,!!
Inventive!Instruments,!Evolving!Community!.......................................................................!65!
JOSEPH!M.!LANE!&!DAVID!W.!RUDGE:!An!Investigation!of!the!Historical!DevelopJ!
ment!of!Plate!Tectonics!from!Continental!Drift!to!Assist!Students!to!Better!!
Appreciate!the!Misconceptions!and!Truths!of!the!Nature!of!Science!.........................!87!
CLAUS!MICHELSEN:!Hans!Christian!rsted:!!Electromagnetism!and!culture!in!the!
classroom!..............................................................................................................................................!99!
CONSTANTINA!STEFANIDOU,!DIMITRIS!STAVROU!&!KONSTANTINOS!SKORDOULIS:!!
Teaching!and!Learning!the!Heuristic!Role!of!!Models!in!Theory!Construction!!
in!the!Context!of!Nature!of!Science:!The!case!of!Maxwells!vortexJidle!wheel!
Model.!..................................................................................................................................................!111!
IVAN!TAFTEBERG!JAKOBSEN!&!JESPER!MATTHIASEN:!Geomat.dk:!Historical!InstruJ!
ments!of!Navigation!!used!as!Educational!Tools!in!Mathematics!...........................!127!
PETER!HEERING:!Make!!Keep!!Use:!Historical!Instruments!into!the!Classroom!.....!143!
JOZEFINA!TURLO,!MAGDALENA!CZERWINKSKA,!ZYGMUNT!TURLO!&!DAWID!BASAK:!Can!!
we!check!by!historical!method!whether!!we!are!using!the!right!calendar?!..........!157!
CODY!T.!WILLIAMS!&!DAVID!W.!RUDGE:!A!Method!for!Improving!Student!UnderJ
standing!of!the!Nature!of!Science!Through!the!Use!of!the!History!of!Gregor!
Mendels!Pea!Experiments!.........................................................................................................!175!
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III.!Activities!in!Science!Museums!and!Centers!
LIDIA!FALOMO!BERNADUZZI!&!GABRIELE!ALBANESI:!The!Neverland!project!...................!187!
JRGEN!TEICHMANN:!Historical!Experiments!and!Science!Education!From!
Conceptual!Planning!of!Exhibitions!to!Continuing!Education!for!teachers!..........!209!
DAVID!RHEES:!Sparks!and!Shocks:!Using!Replicas!of!Historical!Instruments!in!
Museum!Education!........................................................................................................................!223!
CIBELLE!CELESTINO!SILVA!&!PEDRO!D.!COLOMBO!JR.:!The!perception!of!gravity!
in!the!Mad!House:!an!analysis!based!on!Gaston!Bachelards!epistemology!.........!237!
STEVEN!TURNER:!Presenting!Science!Experiences!on!the!Web.!NonJformal!!
learning!in!a!museum!context!..................................................................................................!251!
GUDRUN!WOLFSCHMIDT:!Learning!by!Doing.!Science!Education!in!Hmaburg!
Observatory!......................................................................................................................................!267!
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IV.!Perspectives!on!Science!Education!
AGUSTIN!ADURZABRAVO:!School!science!as!intervention.!Conceptual!and!!
material!tools!and!the!nature!of!science!..............................................................................!283!
ZOUBEIDA!DAGHER:!The!Relevance!of!History!of!Biology!to!Teaching!!and!!
Learning!in!the!Life!Sciences:!The!Case!of!Mendel's!Law!.............................................!303!
MICHAEL!MARKERT:!History!of!Science!in!School!Biology!Textbooks!.............................!313!
CATHRINE!FROESE!KLASSEN:!Stories!Created!for!Science!Teaching:!A!Critical!!
Analysis!..............................................................................................................................................!323!
SUSANNE!HEINICKE:!Adressing!Gauss`s!errors.!Motivation!for!teaching!data!and!
uncertainty!analysis!from!a!history!of!science!perspective!........................................!337!
STEPHEN!KLASSEN!&!CATHRINE!FROESE!KLASSEN:!Raising!Interest!in!Interest.!!
A!Critical!Component!in!Learning!Science!through!Stories!Inside!and!!
Outside!the!Classroom!.................................................................................................................!355!
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