Media Reported Science

MRS 2: 3/19/13

Part 1. Due 3/26

Final. Due 3/28

 

MRS 1: 2/19/13

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/11/25/15-minute-writing-exercise-closes-the-gender-gap-in-university-level-physics/

Read the article:

Answer the following questions:

  1. 1)What is the issue the study is trying to address?

  2. 2)How do they address it?

  3. 3)What is stereotype threat?

  4. 4)Describe the study done

  5. 5)What were the results

  6. 6)What questions do you have about the study?

Then read:

Science-2010-Miyake-1234-7 copy.pdf

Part 1. Due 2/26

And answer the following questions

  1. 1)Were any of your questions answered?

  2. 2)Did you learn any additional information from reading the Science article (compared with the Blog)?

  3. 3)How convinced are you of the study? Why/Why not?

  4. 4)What additional study would you propose?


Final Report: Due 3/5/13 Write a summary of the study, what you learned from the study and in particular, what you may have learned new from discussion with your peers. 


Final. Due 3/5

Read the Kepler Press Release:

    1. • http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler-37b.html

Answer the following questions:

  1. 1)What question(s) do you think the scientists are trying to address here? What are they trying to find out?

  2. 2)How do they go about trying to address this/these questions?

  3. 3)What were the results?

  4. 4)Do you think these results are important/significant?

  5. 5)Does this change your view on what planets can look like?

  6. 6)What questions do you have?

Then Read:

    1. •http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v494/n7438/full/nature11914.html

  2. pdf also found here:

nature11914.pdf

Then answer the following questions:

  1. 1)Were any of your questions answered?

  2. 2)Did you learn any additional information from reading the science article (compared with the press release)?

  3. 3)Are you convinced that the authors results are correct? Why or why not?

  4. 4)Do you think these results are important/significant?

  5. 5)What other information do you think would be good to know about this planetary system?

  6. 6)What do you think is important to know about planetary systems in general and why?