Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Teaching Science Lawlessly -- The Brachistochrone and Related Curves: Implications for Teaching the History of Calculus -- Mirrors, swinging weights, light bulbs…: Simple experiments and history help a class become a scientific community -- Educating and Entertaining: Using Enlightenment Experiments for Teacher Training -- Pedagogical Renewal of the Millikan Oil Drop Experiment -- Teaching Physics to in-service primary school teachers in the con-text of the History of Science: the case of the fall of bodies -- Weighing the Earth, weighing the Worlds From Cavendish to modern undergraduate demonstrations -- Alternative perspectives and conceptual change: integrating pre-scientific knowledge into teaching-learning sequences in school science -- Learning about Light in Grade 4: What Happened to the Illuminating Stories from The History of Science and Technology? -- William Wales and the 1769 Transit of Venus: Puzzle Solving and the Determination of the Astronomical Unit -- Short history of the use of historical experiments in German physics lessons -- History of Science in the Service of Middle School Science Teacher Preparation1 -- Beyond the Textbook: Formative Traditions, Objects, and the Science Museum of the Future -- From Theory to Practice: Placing contextual science in the classroom -- From Babylon to the Big Bang - Are there Revolutions in Astronomy? -- Do mathematics by hands: two cases from ancient Chinese mathematics -- Understanding the Earth and the Cosmos Magnetism in Cultural History, Geophysics and Astronomy Three Examples for Contextual Teaching -- The nature of science in the classroom - sociology to the rescue? -- About the Authors.