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APPENDIX H: Understanding the Scientific Enterprise: The Nature of Science in the Next Generation Science Standards
APPENDIX H: Understanding the Scientific Enterprise: The Nature of Science in the Next Generation Science Standards
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dating human needs, intellectual curiosity, and aspirations. One fundamental goal for K–12 science education is a scientifi THE FRAMEWORK FOR K–12 SCIENCE EDUCATION cally literate person who can understand the nature of scientific knowledge.
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• Science Is a Way of Knowing The present discussion recommends the aforementioned "tactics • Scientific Knowledge Assumes an Order and Consistency in of science and engineering practices and crosscutting concepts" Natural Systems to develop students' understanding of the larger strategies of • Science Is a Human Endeavor the scientific enterprise -- the nature of scientific explanations. It • Science Addresses Questions About the Natural and Material World should be noted that Conant and colleagues went on to develop The first four of these understandings are closely associated with Harvard Cases in History of Science (available at: http://library.wur.nl/ practices and the second four with crosscutting concepts.
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• Scientific investigations use a variety of methods, tools, and techniques to revise and produce new knowledge. Scientific Knowledge • Scientists look • Scientific findings are • Scientific knowledge is based on logical • Scientific knowledge is based on empirical Is Based on Empirical for patterns and based on recognizing and conceptual connections between evidence.
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Science Models, Laws, • Scientists use • Scientific theories are • Theories are explanations for observable • Theories and laws provide explanations in Mechanisms, and drawings, sketches, and based on a body of phenomena. science, but theories do not with time become Theories Explain Natural models as a way to evidence and many tests.
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Scientific Knowledge • Science assumes • Science assumes consistent • Science assumes that objects and events • Scientific knowledge is based on the Assumes an Order and natural events patterns in natural systems. in natural systems occur in consistent assumption that natural laws operate today Consistency in Natural happen today as they • Basic laws of nature are patterns that are understandable through as they did in the past and will continue to do Systems happened in the past.
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In designing instruction, deliberate choices will need to be made The Framework emphasizes that students must have the opportu- about when it is sufficient to build students' understanding of the nity to stand back and reflect on how the practices contribute to scientific enterprise through reflection on their own investigations the accumulation of scientific knowledge. This means, for example, and when it is necessary and productive to have students analyze that when students carry out an investigation, develop models, historical case studies.
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. The second dimension -- crosscutting concepts: New York: Oxford University Press.
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