EXTREME SCIENCE: FROM NANO TO GALACTIC

Book ID/图书代码： 09653014B71701

English Summary/英文概要： Whether we are imagining microbes or mammoths, dinosaurs or diatoms, molecules or stars, people of all ages are fascinated with the very large and the very small. New technologies have enabled scientists to investigate extremes of science previously unknown. An understanding of scale and scaling effects is of central importance to a scientific understanding of the world. Help your middle and high school biology, Earth science, chemistry, physics, and mathematics students develop quantitative evaluation with Extreme Science. Authors Gail Jones, Amy Taylor, and Michael Flavo offer a detailed look at types of scale, measurement, powers of ten, estimation and models of scale, surface area to volume relationships, limits to size, and behaviors at different scales. Scaling conceptions are one of the four recommended unifying themes in the AAAS Benchmarks for Science Literacy. A knowledge of scaling will serve as a solid framework for students to anchor further learning and allow them to make cross-curricular connections between seemingly disparate topics. The investigations in this book are designed to help students develop a comprehensive and flexible sense of scale through experiences with the quantitative units and tools of science. Investigations build on our research that has documented how people learn scale. To aid in comprehension, Extreme Science uses the 5Es (engage, explore, explain, extend, and evaluate) to illustrate each topic. By using this learning method, the activities help students learn to invent scales, develop benchmarks, estimate, and apply body rulers (estimating using fingers, arms, or pacing off distances). In so doing, students will come to understand scale on an intrinsic level and will appreciate that no problem is too big or too little to be scaleable. Comprehending scale at the largest and smallest levels is where a quantitative understanding of the world begins.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 无论我们是否在想象微生物或猛犸，恐龙和硅藻，分子或星星，所有年龄段的人都着迷于非常大和非常小的事物。新技术使科学家能够研究未知的极端科学。对规模和尺度效应的理解是科学的认识世界的中心点。帮助你的初中和高中学生学习生物学，地球科学，化学，物理和数学，并以极端科学学习定量评价。作者盖尔琼斯，艾米•泰勒和迈克尔•发尔沃提供对规模的类型，测量，十的幂，规模的估计及模型，表面积与体积的关系，尺寸的极限，以及不同尺度的行为的详细研究。缩放概念是美国艺术与科学研究院的科学素养标准的四个推荐主题之一。缩放比例的知识将作为坚实的框架为学生的进一步学习打下基础，并允许他们在看似不同的主题之间建立跨学科的联系。这本书中的调查旨在通过经验与科学的定量单位和工具帮助学生建立一个全面和灵活的尺度感。研究建立在我们对已经证实的人们如何学习量表的研究上。为了帮助理解，《极端科学》使用5Es方法（接合，探索，解释，扩展，和评估）来解释每个主题。通过使用这种学习方法，这些活动将帮助学生学会创造规模，制定基准，评估，并运用身体准则（用手指，手臂，或起搏的距离来估计）。这样，学生将了解规模的内在水平，并且明白没有什么因为太大或太小而无法扩展。理解规模的最大和最小水平是定量理解世界的开始。(LNL)

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帮助学生应用规模的作用将不仅是学习科学的有效工具，他们也会找到它在其他学科的使用。——审查：多萝西•E（Lake Worth，FL）2009年6月2日

010 The Washington Book Publishers Book Design and Effectiveness First-Place Winner --Washington Book Publishers Book Design and Effectiveness

Helping the student to apply the use of scale will not only be an effective learning tool for science, but also they will find its use applicable across the disciplines. --Reviewed by: Dorothy E. Matyskiel (Lake Worth, FL) on June 2, 2009

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