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Discussing the NOS:

Legislating STEM

Sample Lesson

The Nature of Science

vs. the Nature of Science Education

AzAAPT

Tempe, AZ

Saturday, Sept 26th, 2015

Thanks

kelliw@asu.edu

kelligw@gmail.com

HS Teacher

  • Mathematics & Physics
  • 16 years Title I schools
  • 2 years public charter ASA
  • starting 4th year as TiR

Why discuss the Nature of Science in science class?

4 strands of science learning:

About Me

1.

Mystery Cube

Know, use, and interpret scientific explanations of the natural world

Model Building

Discussion Points

Alternate Discussion:

Consensus

What's on the bottom of the cube?

1.

How did the mystery cube activity reflect (or not) how science is practiced by scientific researchers?

Record your (individual) observations.

1.

2.

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."

STEM education should not be distinct from the practice of doing STEM.

2.

Generate and evaluate scientific evidence and explanations

3.

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?

Dwain Desbien

Robert Karplus

UC Berkeley Physics

Introductory Physics:

A Model Approach

Dwain Desbien

Estrella Mtn CC

3.

Record observations shared by the worldwide community.

3.

Understand the nature and development of scientific knowledge

=3.2

Ms. Stone's 8th grade class

Chicago, IL 2015

"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."

4.

Modeling Instruction

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.”

Florida

March 2015

Issues in Science and Technology, Summer 2009

Kansas 1999

Indiana 1897

"Dinosaurs existed millions of years ago."

Our science classrooms should reflect the collaborative nature of the scientific community.

All 4 strands characterized as equally important

6-4 vote

Kansas 1999

Donald Trump

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

  • Trained as pre-service teacher
  • Workshop leader since 1997
  • Development team leader for Middle School Modeling

Public: 50% agree

Montana 2012

2007

....and 2015

Representative Clayton Fiscus

Bruce Alberts

biochemistry/biophysics

UC San Francisco

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