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- Title
More Than a Human Endeavor.
- Authors
Olson, Joanne
- Abstract
The article offers nature of science (NOS) ideas and practical K-4 classroom teaching strategies to help teachers avoid unknowingly perpetuating NOS misconceptions. It recommends that teachers should focus on young students' attention on clarifying what they are trying to discover instead of teaching a step-by-step method to help them answer their questions. It states that avoiding the words prove and truth is an important way to accurately portray scientific knowledge for the K-4 students, which are not yet ready to study the status of scientific knowledge. However, it suggests to let students make predictions about further investigations that use the initial experience instead of making hypotheses in advance.
- Subjects
SCIENCE education; STUDENTS; SCIENCE teachers; EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; TEACHING; EXPERIMENTAL design; SCIENTIFIC observation; CREATIVE ability in science
- Publication
Science & Children, 2008, Vol 45, Issue 6, p43
- ISSN
0036-8148
- Publication type
Article