2020 Medley #22 – The Process of Science is Ongoing | Live Long and Prosper
2020 Medley #22 – The Process of Science is Ongoing
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) provides resources for science teachers. A new series of lessons deals with the scientific method — the process of science. The aim is to give students experience in using the scientific method for real-life decision making. The first lesson (see below) deals with helping students overcome misconceptions…
1. MISCONCEPTION: Science is complete, absolute, and unchanging.
2. MISCONCEPTION: Science can answer all questions.
The responses to those misconceptions are 1) as we gather more information, scientific conclusions can change, and 2) there are some things we don’t know.
The value to correcting these misconceptions is obvious to anyone who has been living in the U.S. for the last nine months. The coronavirus pandemic has tested the scientific understanding of the American people — and their leaders — and found them wanting. The misconception that science is complete, absolute, and unchanging, has, for example, allowed millions of people to believe that wearing CONTINUE READING: 2020 Medley #22 – The Process of Science is Ongoing | Live Long and Prosper