Scientific Method
Here are
the steps of the scientific method.
The scientific method may be a good strategy to teach science in the
class room. Scientists themselves,
however, rarely go through this regime.
Intuition, informed guesswork, creativity, an eye for an unusual
occurrence, all play significant role in developing new theories, and thereby,
in the progress of science.
The Role of a Physics (Science) Teacher
The role of the science teacher is crucial to the
development of scientific temper among students.
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The teacher should herself be competent in the area she teaches; she
must be familiar with all the aspects of the nature of science;
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She must have imbibed scientific temper herself.
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Such a teacher can exemplify the content of scientific temper from her
every-day conduct.
From time to time the teacher can
engage her students in discussions (for example, superstitions associated with
eclipses) to develop scientific temper among them, and foster among them the
values hidden in scientific method; the values like
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truth,
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honesty, and
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open-mindedness.
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The teacher can help her students to
retain and sharpen further the sense of inquiry by allowing them to explore
their environment and encouraging them to ask questions, even if sometimes
these questions appear trivial, or irrelevant. While teaching she conveys at
each stage that
science is tentative and nothing is fixed or final and the quest for
progressive refinement of theories and explanations continues in
which the students can participate at that time and later when they grow old.
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