ASA's Education Website - SiteMap of What's Available

A Sitemap-with-Comments for Teachers (and others)

ASA's website for Whole-Person Education (home) covers a wide range of ideas about:
Effective Education that improves the quality of thinking, learning, and teaching;
Science & Theology (studying God's World & God's Word) and their relationships.

Each page below (Creative Thinking,...) is a LINKS-PAGE that provides:
1) a quick overview of important ideas & their relationships, and
2) links to other pages that examine these ideas in more depth.

Effective Education
• Thinking Skills combine Creative Thinking & Critical Thinking in Problem-Solving Methods.
• Effective Education requires Learning Skills plus Teaching Strategies and Teaching Activities.
• School Options include Private Schools & Home Schools (ask whether-and-how) & Public Schools;
Religion in Public Education examines relationships between education, worldviews, and religions.

Science and Theology
• The Nature of Science is involved in both types of topics, education and science/theology, because Scientific Method is a Thinking Skill (so it's featured above in Problem-Solving Methods) and many people are interested in — and often confused about — Relationships between Science and Theology; we'll also look at Christians in Science & Stories of Science & Debates about Science.
• Origins Questions looks at Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design; to see what's available (it's a lot) begin with the homepage which introduces the Questions and links to Educational Resources that include a Sitemap of the Topics and Two Views of the Structure.
• WorldViews are defined in a homepage and are examined in Christian Worldview Education & Christian Stewardship of Life (of our time and opportunities, our knowledge, resources, and environment) & Christian Apologetics and Postmodern Relativism.

I.O.U. — This summer I'll have more time to work on the website, and from May through August the content will increase in many areas, but especially in Christian Stewardship of Life (including Christians in Science) and Origins Questions (mainly in Human Origins, Biological Evolution, Educational Policies, Christian Education, Is intelligent design scientific?; Design of Nature; Interpretations of Genesis, Noah's Flood), and you'll also find IOUs in other pages.

A Multiple-Views Website: Our goal is to help you learn quickly and well (beginning with summaries of important ideas) so we have selected high-quality pages for you to read and use. But our selectivity is not censorship, and we've adopted a multiple-views approach by explaining the views of people with different perspectives (*) so you can be well informed while you develop your own perspectives. * In this website you'll see a wide range of views, which don't necessarily represent views of the American Scientific Affiliation, so linking to a page does not imply an endorsement by ASA.

• You can learn about ASA (and explore other parts of our overall website) and search the website (all of it or only part).

ASA Homepage

At this point you've seen an outline of "what's in the website" so you can begin searching for pages to read and use. Or you can look at what's below, which is more information about the 7 areas — when you MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN! — followed by four tips for teachers and (in an end-of-page table) a compact view of the areas & sub-areas.

		What's in each area?
Everything ABOVE here describes the website's content, and BELOW you'll find tips for using the website more effectively.

Function-Based Decisions
To make each links-page, we've searched for educational resources that fulfill a particular function by clearly explaining important ideas, from a perspective, at a level: in the pages we link to, perspectives vary (as explained above) and so do the levels which range from introductory overview to in-depth analysis. As a teacher you'll be making similar choices, to decide which resources (from our website and elsewhere) can serve a useful function in a course you're teaching.

Using our Religious Perspective
ASA is a Christian organization, and our perspectives — on faith, science, and their interactions — can be useful for public school teachers who want to minimize controversy (about their treatment of religion) while still providing educational information for their students, or for teachers in a private school or home school. How? If you're a teacher in K-12 or college, in a public or private school, you have options. You can...
   • use the website to get a better understanding of complex issues, and then decide how to use this knowledge for teaching,
   • tell students about the website and say "here is something you may (or may not) want to explore on your own,"
   • find appropriate web-pages that fulfill a specific educational function, and assign these for students to read.

And many ideas, especially in Effective Education, will be useful for most teachers & students, no matter what their worldview is, in any school (private or public, from K-12 through college) and in lifelong learning.

PRINTING and LINKING

Files to PRINT (by request)
If you want to print a page so your students can make copies, but it's not available in easy-to-print PDF, just ask the editor (craig@chem.wisc.edu) to convert the page into a print-friendly PDF file.

Broken Link?
If a link doesn't work, please email the editor so we can fix it ASAP.

Pinpoint LINKS (as-is or by request)
If you want to make a web-page open at a specific location, you can do it.
For example, http://www.asa3.org/ASA/education/think/critical.htm opens at the top of the page, but with #logic as a suffix (.../critical.htm#logic) it will open at a section about The Logic of Critical Thinking, and replacing #logic with #ethics takes you to The Ethics of Critical Thinking.
Or, if you add #tips to the URL of this page and press RETURN the page will reload at the "above and below" transition to this tips-box.
How can you know what location-suffixes (called "anchors") can be used in a link-URL? First, open your browser's View-menu and click Page Source (or Source, View Source,...). Second, search for "<a name=" and you'll find each of the five anchors in this page. Or, you'll be able to see the anchors if you use an HTML-editing program such as Dreamweaver or Front Page.
anchors on request: If you want to open a page to a place where there is no anchor, just ask the editor (craig@chem.wisc.edu) and he will add it to the page.
note: All of the links above (and most other links in this ed-website) end with #i because this prevents a page from re-loading when you move around the page using its italicized inside-the-page links and then use your browser's Back-Button.

THREE TYPES OF LINKS in this website for Whole-Person Education:
An ITALICIZED LINK keeps you inside a page, moving you to another part of it.
Above, a NON-ITALICIZED LINK is page-adding, opening a new page in a new window.
Below, a NON-ITALICIZED LINK is page-replacing, opening a new page in this window.

Three Types of Links

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