Understanding Science 101
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| Audience/Grade: | 0-College Senior |
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Astronomy Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering Biological Systems and Agricultural Engineering Chemistry Earth Sciences General Engineering, Engineering Science Life Sciences Physics |
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| Learning Resource Type: |
Teaching - Laboratory/Experiment/Field Activity |
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Unknown |
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Organization:University of California at Berkeley |
| Description: | New website that covers all areas of K-16 (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 and 13-16). The approach is on scientific strategies and how to put them into action in your own classroom. The resource library is organized around the following topics: teaching resources, correcting misconceptions, science in action, and FAQs. " Science is an inspiring process of discovery that helps satisfy the natural curiosity with which we are all born. Unfortunately, traditional instruction that misrepresents science as a body of facts to be memorized and the process of science as a rigid 5-step procedure can deaden students' spirit of inquiry. Students should come away from our classrooms with an appreciation of the natural world — fascinated by its intricacies and excited to learn more. They should view and value science as a multi-faceted, flexible process for better understanding that world. Such views encourage life-long learning and foster critical thinking about everyday problems students face in their lives. You can cultivate these ways of thinking in your students through science instruction that accurately and enthusiastically communicates the true nature of science and that encourages students to question how we know what we know. Fortunately, fostering such understandings needn't require reorganizing your entire curriculum. Simple shifts in how content and activities are approached can make a big difference in overcoming student misconceptions and building more accurate views of the process of science." |
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| Keywords: | scientific method scientific discovery process of science |
| Has Components: |
The 13-16 Teachers' Lounge for Understanding Science |
| Is Component of: |
Museum of Paleontology, University of California |
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Great website to help teachers in a wide range of grades to integrate nature and the process of science into their instruction using inquiry-based science and hands-on activities. |
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| Publication Date: | February 2009 |
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WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://undsci.berkeley.edu/ |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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