Methods Lecture 1 Slides Colby Tofel-Grehl Nature of Science Methods Lecture 1 Slides Colby Tofel-Grehl
What is Science? Write down what you believe science is.- 2 min Pair and share. Distance students talk over mics to each other. Group Definition
What is Science? Science is a way of knowing and looking at the world? It is a specific lens for looking at the world. Other lenses are valid, just different. What are other ways of knowing and looking at the world? Artistic Religious Social
What is Nature of Science? Science is the systematic gathering of information thru various forms of direct and indirect observations and the testing of this information by methods such as experimentation. The product of science is knowledge in the form of naturalistic concepts and the laws and theories related to those concepts
Reading http://ngl.cengage.com/assets/downloads/ngsci_pro00 00000028/am_bell_teach_nat_sci_scl22-0449a_.pdf Spend 20 minutes reading and come back for group discussion
Key Features of Nature of Science Science is: Simultaneously tentative and reliable Based in explanations supported by empirical evidence Limited to the natural world, not super natural Creative Seeking to form laws and theories based in natural world observation