Abstract
Most students entering our introductory astronomy course for nonscience majors arrive not merely lacking scientific facts—they also have misconceptions about the nature of science, and many have a handicapping “science anxiety” (in addition to math anxiety). So I have added a “current science” requirement to our introductory course. Each student must compile a file of five astronomy news articles taken from readily available sources.
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