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Legislating STEM
AzAAPT
Tempe, AZ
Saturday, Sept 26th, 2015
Know, use, and interpret scientific explanations of the natural world
What's on the bottom of the cube?
How did the mystery cube activity reflect (or not) how science is practiced by scientific researchers?
Record your (individual) observations.
1. What is science?
2. What is reality?
3. Is science reality?
"The least objectionable answer to the majority of the community."
Which of the 8 Engineering & Science Practices listed in the NGSS were used as part of the mystery cube activity?
"Within the framework of a scientific model, observations can be interpreted in much more far-reaching ways than are possible without a theory."
Generate and evaluate scientific evidence and explanations
Record observations shared by your nearest colleagues.
Kelli Gamez Warble
ASU TiR
Is it possible (or desirable) to teach the Nature of Science without teaching a particular science content area? Is it possible to teach science content without using NOS practices?
Record observations shared by the worldwide community.
Understand the nature and development of scientific knowledge
=3.2
"God created the world within the last 10,000 years."
"State Department of Environmental Protection officials have been ordered not to use the term climate change or global warming in any official communications, emails, or reports."
Participate productively in scientific practices and discourse
“When I was growing up, autism wasn’t really a factor...and now all of a sudden, it’s an epidemic...My theory, and I study it because I have young children, my theory is the shots. We’re giving these massive injections at one time, and I really think it does something to the children.”
March 2015
Issues in Science and Technology, Summer 2009
"Dinosaurs existed millions of years ago."
6-4 vote
vote 67-0
"...Yet what is taught in most schools today, from kindergarten through introductory college classes, focuses almost exclusively on only a portion of the first strand: teaching students to know scientific explanations of the natural world."
Public: 80% agree
Public: 50% agree
2007
....and 2015
Representative Clayton Fiscus