Download Teaching the Nature of Science Perspectives Resources Douglas Allchin Books

Product details Paperback 324 pages Publisher SHiPS Education Press (June 1, 2013) Language English ISBN-10 098925240X

Teaching the Nature of Science Perspectives Resources Douglas Allchin Books Reviews

• As the author emphasizes, there’s far too much “School Science” out there. In textbooks and science teachers’ traditional approaches to teaching “The Scientific Method” (as if that was the only way that science is done), this “School Science” misses the Real Science (or Authentic Science). That’s the exciting, messy, hit-and-miss adventure that represents the real way most science is done, by real people. Furthermore, even when there is an effort to teach the nature of science (NOS), too often it becomes a dry list of features to memorize about the limits and realm of science (what it can and cannot do) and the many ways that science is actually done. Or teachers just assume that students “doing inquiries” will absorb key elements of NOS without much, if any, effort to focus on it explicitly (as research tells us we must do).
  
  Everyone loves a good story well-told. Allchin presses on how effective it is for students to hear and reflect on (discuss) the successes and failures of working scientists as they stumble their way forward trying to understand the natural world. In this book, you will find several examples of how this can be most effective. You are also cautioned on how not to “Teach History in Science.” With proper research, planning, and presentation, your students will become deeply engaged in how scientists try to solve problems as real people. As they begin to enter the context of the background and early stages of discovery, students are encouraged to try their own ideas about solutions, and really get a feel for that. As the story unfolds, students can experience the frustrations, the joys, and re-directions that often happen in authentic science. In the process, many of the “Myth-Conceptions” and pseudoscience ideas can be exposed, along with many examples of tentativeness and change in scientific ideas.
  
  For more insights to Allchin’s "Teaching the Nature of Science", go here http//www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/Rev.Allchin.Tch%20NOS.html