Monday, January 18, 2016

What is Science?

As stated in my prompt, the word "science" can bring many different pictures to ones mind. Weather it be a fat textbook, white lab coats and microscopes, an astronomer peering through a telescope, a naturalist in the reinforces, Einstein's equations scribbled on the chalkboard, the launch of the space shuttle, bubbling beakers and so on can all reflect some aspect of science while not providing a full picture of science ay all.
Since science has so many different facets, it is overall different from all other disciplines. Science is a self correcting process. Depending on the amount of testing and experimenting done on a topic it can alter weather the data is true, false or just altered. On many terms, what is considered a face in science, has gone through extensive texting to have become a "fact".
What makes teaching science different from other subjects? Students engage in the topic of science and learning through labs and hands on experimenting to discover different ideas in science. They have to be able to form a question, a hypothesis and gather information in order to test it and discover is there hypothesis was true or false and be able to alter the experiment to get the most accurate data possible. Not only as they learn to pass through the phases of the scientific method they have to be able to understand that a possibility with science is that is is always changing. Every science teacher seeks that moment where the light bulb goes off within a child learning science.

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