Goal #2: use common sense teaching
strategies
7. what the heck is science, anyways?
task:
Write a paper which reacts
to and cites the information in the articles about and by Richard Feynman.
rationale:
Read about something called
... "curiosity."
- to teach "it" you should have some idea about the nature
of science.
- is it the goal of scientists to accumulate a body of
"stuff" that will be used by teachers to torture students ?
- is their purpose to invent things that will make life easier?
- what is "it" that scientists "do" & what
"possesses them" to "do it?"
Read the article by Feynman -- WHAT IS SCIENCE.
Read the other articles about Feynman -- written by others.
Make sure you read his short
obituary, FIRST -- to see what kind
of guy he was.
substitute
assignment
Option H --- what is a scientist like?
readings
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