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Applied science
About: Applied science is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1178 publications have been published within this topic receiving 19920 citations. The topic is also known as: applied sciences.
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01 Jan 1998TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the teaching and learning opportunities in a unit used to introduce aspects of the nature of science to preservice teachers within a Science/Technology/Society (STS) course.
Abstract: This chapter describes the teaching and learning opportunities in a unit used to introduce aspects of the nature of science to preservice teachers within a Science/Technology/Society (STS) course. The course teaches the nature of science while modeling processes used in science to generate new knowledge. We begin with an overview of the course, its students, and the way the learning opportunities have been arranged to encourage students to use processes of science to generate personal knowledge. Then we describe the unit that introduces the nature of science explicitly, including commercially available materials used and excerpts from a lecture series that describe science as an outgrowth of biological evolution. Finally, we present strategies for assessment and comments about the impact of the course on students. The nature of science unit in our STS course has been adapted and tested with a variety of audiences, including preservice and inservice secondary and elementary teachers of science. Some may elect to adapt this unit for use in preservice methods classes or as a freestanding workshop for inservice teachers.
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