Think about three people who would be Time to get great to get some quotes from for this story. What would they say about the events that occurred? Write down these three quotes to use in your article later.
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Explore Podcasts All podcasts. Difficulty Beginner Intermediate Advanced. Explore Documents. Ordeal by Check. Example Check In this science capstone laboratory class for pre-service teachers, students are introduced on the first day of class to how scientific knowledge develops, often referred to as nature of science NOS.
Students write answers independently to questions on the NOS survey, then discuss their answers in small groups, and finally share with the entire class during a brief discussion.
As a group they establish NOS tenets. Small groups about 4 students then engage in the "Ordeal by Check" activity, which involves creating a story based on evidence and adjusting their story based on more evidence. Learn more about the course for which this activity was developed.
Students should become familiar with the nature of science NOS i. Students will use higher-order thinking skills, such as synthesizing their observations as more evidence i. They will be working in groups and will be presenting their findings orally to the class. This activity is to be performed on the first day of an upper division laboratory course that is required for, and restricted to, Liberal Studies majors at a large state university.
Some of the students are in a 4-year pre-credential program whereas others are in integrated programs from which they will graduate with a Bachelor's and a teaching credential.
The laboratory sections are limited to 32 students, and typically seven sections are offered each semester. Following an introduction to the NOS that includes completing and discussing the NOS survey, which could take up to 30 minutes, they perform the Ordeal by Check activity minutes. Afterwards the instructor leads a class discussion during which each group summarizes their story. Materials needed include the actual checks placed in envelopes. Nine checks per group are needed, with three common checks among all groups.
This activity should be easy to adapt to any science class. Although each group has 9 different checks from which they constructed their story, there are three common checks that all groups have. Thus it is interesting to see how each group's story used the same "pieces of evidence" in a different way.
Conclude the activity by emphasizing that they are using evidence to create a story, and then adjusting the story based upon new evidence. This is analogous to the development and advancement of a theory.
For example, the theory of plate tectonics changes as new evidence is collected. Blank checks Acrobat PDF 1. In addition to referring regularly to the NOS tenets and checking that students understand how they apply to a given laboratory exercise, we include short essay questions in exams that check student understanding. Note that we do not ask students to memorize tenets. They are provided with them to help on the exam questions. Example 1: In the past, people believed that the earth's seasons were the result of earth's changing distance from the sun.
Today we know that the seasons are the result of the tilt of earth's axis of rotation relative to the orbital plane around the sun. Choose one of the Nature of Science tenets to explain how this change in our understanding of the earth illustrates how scientific knowledge develops.
Example 2: There are many types of data that can be collected related to the weather in a given area e. Because of this, some people feel that "scientists don't know what they are talking about" when it comes to the weather.
Example 3: In the past, people believed that the sun and planets of our solar system revolved around the earth. Today we know that the sun is at the center of our solar system. Choose one of the Nature of Science tenets to explain how this change in our understanding of the solar system illustrates how scientific knowledge develops.
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