Welcome to ISCI 2001!

1. Welcome to ISCI 2001!

2. Michael Dias, Ph.D. Sci Ed • Manuel & Gloria `63 • St Mary HS ‘82 • W. KY Univ ‘87 • Cobb CoPS 87-00 • Laurie 8/1/92 • GSU Doctorate 12/00 • KSU: SC 308b

3. ISCI 2001 Course Goals In ISCI 2001, we seek to: • 1) provide learning experiences that accurately portray the nature of scientific inquiry; • 2) promote both the sense of wonder and the capacity to interpret phenomena on the basis of empirical evidence; • 3) facilitate dialogue for development of science content knowledge for teaching science in grades K-5; • 4) offer initial experiences in the design of meaningful science experiences to be used in teaching children of grades K-5.

4. MicroTeach: 10% Field Trip: 10% Lab Quizzes: 30% 3 Exams: 50% Course Webpage Grading Plan & Important Dates

5. Why Teach?

6. On the first day of school… “It was boring. We talked about the number one and I fell asleep. It was nothing like in my dreams.” (Lauren, 6)

7. On the second day of school… “I sat there, like a dog, begging to go home.” (Lauren, 6)

8. What is learning? How do we influence it?

9. Kid quotes on love… What is the proper age to get married? • “Eighty-four! Because at that age, you don’t have to work anymore and you can spend all your time loving each other in the bedroom.” (Judy, 8)

10. Kid quotes on love… What do most people do an a date? • “ On the first date, they just tell each other lies, and that usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date.” (Mike, 10)

11. Kid quotes on love… On the role of good looks in love… “If you want to be loved by somebody who isn’t already in your family, it doesn’t hurt to be beautiful.” (Jeanne, 8)

12. What is the single most important factor in influencing learning?

13. Educational Psychology: A Cognitive View (Ausubel, 1968) “The single most important factor in influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach accordingly.”

14. Teaching is a basic human act. • behaviorism • constructivism • Beware of false dichotomies. Both are of use in our “best practice.”

15. Rachel Carson,The Sense of Wonder "If children are to keep alive the inborn sense of wonder, they need the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with them the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in."

16. Activity: Draw a Scientist Take a few minutes with a pencil and paper and draw a scientist at work.

17. Draw a Scientist? What’s the point?

18. Scoring: (1 point for any of the following: lower score is a higher rating) • labcoat • eyeglasses • facial hair • symbols of research - test tubes, flask • symbols of knowledge - books, filing cabinet • sign of technology - solutions, machines • captions - Eureka, I’ve got it!!! • male • signs/labeling - Fire, Danger, Poison • pencils and pens in pocket protector • unkempt appearance

19. Draw a Scientist? What’s the point?

20. Agree or Disagree? • When cows fall asleep standing up, it is easy (and fun!) to sneak up next to them and tip them over. • Birds eating rice thrown at weddings swell up and die (even burst). • Animals exposed to radioactive waste mutate and turn into other types of animals.

21. Agree or Disagree? • Earthworms come up onto the sidewalks after heavy rain to avoid being drowned in their underground tunnels. • People licking toads have hallucinations. • Lennon wrote better music than Tchaikovsky. • Heaven is not in our solar system, but it is somewhere in the universe.

22. Science… • Much of science is organized common sense about the physical world. • Science is a body of knowledge. • Science is the process of discovering and explaining the order of nature

23. SCI 2201: Concepts in Science • Science: A Way of Knowing • Trefil & Hazen, The Sciences chapter 1 Great Idea: Science is a way of asking and answering questions about the physical universe.

24. From Science for All Americans (1990, AAAS, Project 2061) • --things and events in the universe occur in consistent patterns that are comprehensible through careful, systematic study. • --through the use of the intellect, and with aid of instruments that extend the senses, people can discover patterns in all of nature.

25. Biology Botany Ecology Genetics Zoology etc Astronomy Chemistry Geology Meteorology Physics etc Life Sciences Physical Sciences

26. Subject Matter Knowledge for Teaching • Science Literacy

27. “The Scientific Method” • Question or Problem 2) Hypothesize • Predict Consequences 4) Experiment • 5) Interpret Experimental Results

29. The Scientific Method • There is simply no fixed set of steps that scientists always follow, no one path that leads them unerringly to scientific knowledge.

30. Science involves… • Using and extending the senses • Observing and collecting • Probing and testing • Deductive hypothesis testing • Inductive search for patterns • Building increasingly accurate explanations based on evidence

31. Mendeleev and the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements

32. Fleming and the serendipitous discovery of the first antibiotic

33. Goodall and the willingness to break with convention

34. Fact, Hypothesis, Law, Theory • Fact = a stated observation • Hypothesis = a proposition that may be investigated • Law or Principle = a description of observable phenomena • Theory = an explanation based on extensive evidence

35. Science, Art, Religion

36. Three ways that humans experience and express: art, science, and religion.