ACS Education paper. Carmen J. Giunta, Department of Chemistry, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY 13214 Presented at the 211th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 24, 1996. Copyright © 1996 Abstract The history of science is full of stories which exhibit scientific methodology to an exemplary degree. Introduction and Outline Good morning. Pedagogical Background: Le Moyne College CHM 203, "Scientific Thought" Le Moyne College is a small, undergraduate-oriented institution with a Core curriculum founded on the liberal arts. The goal of the class is to teach non-science majors how scientists thin--and also some content if I'm lucky! Scripture says there is no new thing under the sun, and that is certainly true of the idea of using case histories to teach scientific method.
Historical Background: The Discovery of Argon Morals of the Story: Lessons Learned from the Discovery of Argon In this section I list a few of object lessons which can be garnered from detailed study of the discovery of argon.[6] Notes. National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science (NCCSTS) Error and the Nature of Science. March 2004 How science works is the key to understanding its concepts. Einstein predicted in 1907 that light bends in a gravitational field. Today, telescopes on Earth can pick up the light bending around a massive object in space. Source: NASA’s hubble.org. Scientific information abounds. Profiling the Nature of Science Observation comes from different angles. What features of the nature of the science are most important to know? Scientists think critically about claims. Scientists back their findings with multiple lines of evidence.
Observation is sometimes enhanced by quantitative measurement, by comparison—especially with controls that isolate the effect of individual variables or help distinguish correlation from causation—and by graphical representation and statistical analysis summarizing patterns in the data and the chances for error.Data does not speak for itself. Science deals with facts, not values. Science is a human enterprise. Some claims are rooted in unsound principles.
Social. Nature Of Science | The Art of Teaching Science. Chapter 1: The Nature of Science. Chapter 1: THE NATURE OF SCIENCE Over the course of human history, people have developed many interconnected and validated ideas about the physical, biological, psychological, and social worlds. Those ideas have enabled successive generations to achieve an increasingly comprehensive and reliable understanding of the human species and its environment. The means used to develop these ideas are particular ways of observing, thinking, experimenting, and validating. These ways represent a fundamental aspect of the nature of science and reflect how science tends to differ from other modes of knowing. It is the union of science, mathematics, and technology that forms the scientific endeavor and that makes it so successful. Although each of these human enterprises has a character and history of its own, each is dependent on and reinforces the others.
This chapter lays out recommendations for what knowledge of the way science works is requisite for scientific literacy. The World Is Understandable.