Using Fables to Teach Science
Index of Lessons
Lesson |
Fable - Main Point |
Science - Topic |
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Perhaps elements of the physical world that are considered inanimate in modern times are actually alive |
Heat cause expansion which cause a decrease in density and weight |
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Suspending intellectual analysis can cause more intense observation |
Teaching the Scientific Method can accidentally cause students to jump to conclusions |
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Learning to honor human abilities to observe before analyzing |
A classic experiment that propagates a bias of seeing humans as machines |
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Challenging science teaching to allow students to simply stay in a state of wonder sometimes, without necessarily making analytical conclusions |
Science teaching could help students teach themselves by sharpening observation |
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Perhaps quantum entanglement points at the ancient supposition that we are all connected - to oneness |
Quantum computers and the quantum properties of entanglement and the observer effect |
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The conjecture that we come from a spiritual to physical existence |
Quantum Science’s entanglement teaches us to ‘learn to learn’ |
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Questioning how much seemingly objective conclusions of science are psychologically biased by our times |
Examining the Nature of Science |
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Why are human intention, desire, and wishes associated with flame and fire |
The biology, chemistry, and physics of flame and fire |
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Our human view of falling affects our conception of gravity |
Gravity as seen as a force or as Einstein’s geometry of curved space |
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Perhaps consciousness is ready to be studied by mainstream science |
Galileo and the attempt to bring in new ideas using the Scientific Method |
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Using your heart - as in a fable - can offset a head-view of the world |
Properties of carbon dioxide |
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How names, categories, and labels are necessary in science; but can affect you adversely |
Seeing an overview of all kinds of bread from the perspective of the organic categories of ingredients |
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Step back to see whole pictures to come up with better perspectives on how nature works |
Organic matter oxidizes back to air while metals oxidize to become rock |
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If very small amounts of some chemicals cause large changes in nature, perhaps the presence of some things matters more than we think |
The very small amounts of iron and other minerals that affect the health of trees |
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Perhaps the earth is actually a large, living being |
Iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium, and sodium in nature’s cycles |
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If our technology could imitate nature better, we may find ourselves transcending our current abilities |
Innovations in technology can make life truly better |
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Symbiotic relationships among carbon-based life on earth |
Organic biochemistry of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in Photosynthesis |
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The possibility of levity |
The physics of gravity, the biochemistry of trees |
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Using the lens of wonder |
Some properties of water |
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Head vs Heart Thought, Left vs Right Brain |
Scientific Observation vs Analysis |
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Science Lesson #20 The Test of a Real Scientist (Head Thought & Heart Thought) [Fable #17] [Fable #24] [Fable #25] [Fable #50] [Fable #54] [Fable #72] [Fable #88] [Fable #92] [Fable #100] [Fable #102] [Fable #116] [Fable #149] |
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Science Lesson #19
Wonderful Water! (Your Scientific Lens) [Fable #20] [Fable #27] [Fable #44] [Fable #88] [Fable #90] [Fable #92] [Fable #120] [Fable #133] [Fable #138] [Fable #139] |
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Science Lesson #18
Are Trees Joking? (I Want My Levity!) [Fable #13] [Fable #14] [Fable #16] [Fable #27] [Fable #30] [Fable #35] [Fable #55] [Fable #64] [Fable #67] [Fable #101] [Fable #149] |
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Science Lesson #17
We are Carbon-Based Life Forms (Photosynthesis) [Fable #13] [Fable #14] [Fable #27] [Fable #145] [Fable #150] |
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Science Lesson #16
The Scientist-Artist (Innovations in Technology) [Fable #18] [Fable #21] [Fable #23] [Fable #28] [Fable #29] [Fable #30] [Fable #57] [Fable #134] [Fable #145] [Fable #146] [Fable #149] |
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Science Lesson #13
The Woods are on Fire! (Carbon versus Metals) [Fable #18] [Fable #40] [Fable #79] [Fable #122] [Fable #130] |
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Science Lesson #11
How to Make Your Own “Fables & Science” Lesson (Carbon Dioxide 5 Ways) [Fable #1] [Fable #7] [Fable #10] [Fable #14] [Fable #15] [Fable #16] [Fable #27] [Fable #38] [Fable #56] [Fable #64] [Fable #67] [Fable #77] [Fable #78] [Fable #100] [Fable #102] [Fable #107] [Fable #116] [Fable #117] [Fable #130] [Fable #131] [Fable #132] [Fable #133] [Fable #138] |
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Science Lesson #9
Falling and Getting Back Up (Gravity) [Fable #58] [Fable #53] [Fable # 3] [Fable #34] [Fable #36] [Fable #90] [Fable #91] [Fable #105] [Fable #108] [Fable #109] [Fable #118] |
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Science Lesson #8
Why Can't Wishes Be Scientific? (Fire) [Fable #126] [Fable #1] [Fable #2] [Fable #3] [Fable #32] [Fable #42] [Fable #45] [Fable #47] [Fable #57] [Fable #67] [Fable #71] [Fable #124] [Fable #125] [Fable #146] |
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Science Lesson #7
Science Teachers Quiz (8 Psychological Implications of Science) [Fable #57] [Fable #6] [Fable #16] [Fable #19] [Fable #47] [Fable #54] [Fable #80] [Fable #88] [Fable #126] [Fable #131] [Fable #145] |
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Science Lesson #3
Interrogation and Observation (3 Bowls) [Fable #4] [Fable #60] [Fable #88] [Fable #92] [Fable #128] [Fable #146] |
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Science Lesson #1
Could Aristotle's Four Elements Be Alive? (Hot & Cold) [Fable #38][Fable #61][Fable #130][Fable #131] |
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