Trolling around google, thinking about how scientists communicate, I stumbled across a few interesting sites:

• "Undergraduate learning in science project: Working paper 5" by Leach, Rider and Driver. All the papers from that project are interesting and are here and here. At first glance, this stuff is amazing.
  
• "Learning how scientists work: Experiential research projects to promote cell biology learning and scientific process skills" by DebBurman. From Cell Biology Education, winter 2002.
  
• "GE Informaiton literacy goals and competancies: Area B: Sciences"