In this article, the authors describe a lesson that uses the 5E Learning Cycle to help students not only understand the atomic model but also how Ernest Rutherford helped develop it. The lesson uses Rutherford's gold foil experiment to focus on three aspects of the nature of science: the empirical nature of science, the tentativeness of scientific knowledge, and the distinction between observation and inference.
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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 10/1/2011Stock # tst11_078_07_56Volume 078Issue 07