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- Title
Addressing Nature-of-Science Core Tenets with the History of Science: AN EXAMPLE WITH SICKLE-CELL ANEMIA & MALARIA.
- Authors
Howe, Eric M.
- Abstract
The article reports on the use of the history of genetics on heterozygote protection in sickle-cell anemia to help students to connect to multiple nature-of-science (NOS) tenets. Sickle-cell anemia is a recessive genetic disease that affects the proper function of the human red blood cell. The author developed an eight-lesson unit of instruction based on the history of research on sickle-cell anemia. The unit takes the approach of a "mystery disease" that students are to solve by examining evidence taken from the history of research by past scientists who were working to understand the sickle-cell phenomenon. For those students who propose the explanation of heterozygote protection, the teacher can challenge them to think of an experimental design to test their hypothesis.
- Subjects
SICKLE cell anemia; BLOOD diseases; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; SCIENCE education; SCIENCE teachers; ERYTHROCYTES
- Publication
American Biology Teacher (National Association of Biology Teachers), 2007, Vol 69, Issue 8, p467
- ISSN
0002-7685
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/4452206