It is becoming more and more difficult to find good articles about the nature of science. It seems to still be a fairly new concept in teaching science. I still find a lot resources on the scientific method and step by step teaching of science. So I think I'll take this blog to start putting together my other blogs and prior knowledge.
In Jerrid's class we are learning a lot about how to teach the nature of science. He also uses this approach in teaching us, so he is effectively modeling how it could be used in a science classroom. We are being taught that there can be many ways to come to the same conclusion in the end. I agree that the scientific method is not the way to go, but when I first learned about the nature of science way of teaching I was in shock. I was in shock that 13 years of being taught science by way of the scientific method had just been ripped away from me. Not that I want to hold on to those years. I hated science and the way it was taught. I decided to become a teacher to make learning and school different for all the kids that go through school hating the "traditional" systems and methods of school just like I did. I think that the concept of teaching to the nature of science is a great place for me to start my teaching strategies for my future classroom.
I think you could even take the basic ideas from the nature of science and use them in other subject areas. If you extract the creativity, inquiry, and discovery parts of teaching the nature of science I think it could be beneficial to almost every subject. Next blog, I connect these ideas with past blogs and start to finish the puzzle that is the nature of science.
I agree that Dr. Kruse is effectively modeling how the nature of science should be used in the classroom. I am also shocked because I was drilled with the scientific method and now I realize that is not the way science works. This class has truly opened my eyes to the flaws of the teaching of science.
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