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During my secondary education in England, I was required to take classes in physics and chemistry.
The Nuffield Science Project, with its emphasis on "discovery learning", hoped that students would learn about such principles of classical mechanics as those of acceleration through their own experimentation with trolleys and ticker tape.
My group could not even set up the equipment, let alone draw conclusions from ticker tape, and I am not sure if any of the students in my class accomplished much more than us.
In fact, we were all half aware that the "discovery" element was a fraud. The teacher knew what the "right" results were, and he would show us before the end of the period. We were less student scientists than uninformed, untrained, and totally incompetent laboratory demonstrators.
I was never going to be a great science student, but the regular, contextless sessions of things banging against each other, getting hot, or lighting up on a circuit board failed to capture my interest. Physics bored me.
On the other hand...
#Physics #ScienceTeaching #Education #NuffieldScienceProject
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During my secondary education in England, I was required to take classes in physics and chemistry.
The Nuffield Science Project, with its emphasis on "discovery learning", hoped that students would learn about such principles of classical mechanics as those of acceleration through their own experimentation with trolleys and ticker tape.
My group could not even set up the equipment, let alone draw conclusions from ticker tape, and I am not sure if any of the students in my class accomplished much more than us.
In fact, we were all half aware that the "discovery" element was a fraud. The teacher knew what the "right" results were, and he would show us before the end of the period. We were less student scientists than uninformed, untrained, and totally incompetent laboratory demonstrators.
I was never going to be a great science student, but the regular, contextless sessions of things banging against each other, getting hot, or lighting up on a circuit board failed to capture my interest. Physics bored me.
On the other hand...
#Physics #ScienceTeaching #Education #NuffieldScienceProject
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Oklahoma science and math teacher wins presidential award https://www.byteseu.com/824894/ #app #FrancisTuttleTechnologyCenter #Hail #HeatherVoss #HighAward #MathTeacher #OklahomaScience #OklahomaStudent #PresidentialAward #Science #ScienceTeaching #SevereStorm #subscribe #TopHeadlinestimeline #TornadoRisk #WeekKoco
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"science is and has always been affected by the dominant culture and its values. To explicitly acknowledge this reality in science teaching, including genetics education, is imperative;" #
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"science is and has always been affected by the dominant culture and its values. To explicitly acknowledge this reality in science teaching, including genetics education, is imperative;" #
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#microbiology #scienceteaching One of the most rewarding #scienceed projects I have participated is Tiny Earth: https://tinyearth.wisc.edu/ a way for students to learn biology (and #chemistry and #genomics) through research: isolating and identifying #antibiotic producing bacteria from the soil. Besides teaching courses with the framework, there is plenty of opportunity for student #research. Those were the cultures I was handling so they'd survive over the holiday break.
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#microbiology #scienceteaching One of the most rewarding #scienceed projects I have participated is Tiny Earth: https://tinyearth.wisc.edu/ a way for students to learn biology (and #chemistry and #genomics) through research: isolating and identifying #antibiotic producing bacteria from the soil. Besides teaching courses with the framework, there is plenty of opportunity for student #research. Those were the cultures I was handling so they'd survive over the holiday break.