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Dr. Keller received her Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry from the University of New Mexico in 1992.
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Just the facts please
About twelve years ago I sat down to write a science curriculum. I was homeschooling my children and wanted to teach them science. At that time I was working on a post-doctoral project in molecular biology and fell in love with molecular machines. Molecular machines were a “new” concept in biology, and having received my Ph.D. in biophysics a few years earlier, the idea captivated me. I was mesmerized by the work of Michael O’Donnell and the transcription machinery his lab was just beginning to discover 1.
Read the rest of this entryReal science in action: Open Inquiry
Last week I discussed one of our two first place Pre-Level I 2010 Virtual Science Fair winners. In that post I explored the concept of “learning pegs” and how a six-year old user of Real Science-4-Kids has already begun to build a solid science foundation. In this post, I’d like to discuss our other first place 2010 Virtual Science Fair winner in the Pre-Level I category. This project demonstrates another important aspect of real science in action: open inquiry.
Read the rest of this entryWhat is science? Part 2
In Part 1 of “What is science?” I suggested that the origin of modern science is difficult to define. I also gave a very broad definition of science being “the vocation where individuals attempt to ‘know’ the natural world.” As you can probably guess, this definition is so broad that some may argue it is not specific enough to define “science” at all.
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