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I don't know if this is the original source, but the activity is in the
book Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science from the
National Academy Press http://newton.nap.edu/catalog/5787.html  You can
download the pdf after a free registration.

It's a great activity for introducing the nature of science.  I think it
is very important not to allow people to look at the bottom of the cube
at any point, in order to reinforce that science is about explaining the
unknown, not discovering the known.  Teachers especially are driven to
check their answer, but many others are as well.  It is important that
people who are really going to understand science come to grips with the
role of uncertainty and the idea of knowing from evidence.  

The book has several other great activities, including the
trackway/footprint interpretation activity that builds the idea of
multiple interpretations of lines of evidence.

Dave Smith

David L. Smith, Ph.D.
Director of Professional Development
Da Vinci Discovery Center, Allentown, PA 
http://www.davinci-center.org
"Who will pick up where Leonardo left off?"



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> A few years ago at an ASTC session (maybe in Charlotte), we did an 
> activity with a cube with six names on it. The task was to use the 
> information on five of the sides to decide the name and 
> numbers written 
> on the sixth side (FRANCENE, 4, 8) I love this activity, and I would 
> love to give proper credit to the person who created it. Will 
> the proud 
> owner please step forward? Did anyone attend that session and recall 
> who facilitated it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrea Motto
> Museum Youth Program Specialist
> New York Hall of Science
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