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How teachers cultivate young scientists

SSP Fellows share tips on how to introduce research into the classroom

By Erin Wayman

Web edition: October 12, 2012

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An instructor at the 2012 SSP Fellows Institute demonstrates the “electric pickle” experiment, a fun way to introduce students to research.

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Allowing kids to ask questions, study background information on a problem and then test their own predictions reveals the true nature of scientific inquiry. Along the way, tweens and teens will learn that biology, chemistry, physics and earth science are not static bodies of knowledge, but enterprises that churn out new discoveries every day. Teachers who have participated in an SSP Fellows program have gleaned tips on how to bring research – not just the demonstration of scientific concepts – into their classrooms. Here, we share those tips on what works, and how even cash-strapped schools can find the resources to make it happen.

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My experience has been that Coll. of Eds. prepare their students SO POORLY that these kinds of programs are deemed THREATENING by the teacher and are only rarely implemented. For example: At a Sci Fair project on whether bugs preferred sugar to sweetener, the student asked the teacher how we know that the sweetener TASTES SWEET to the bugs. Project was cancelled by the teacher.

cacocciula

Oct. 16, 2012 at 9:11am
I submit that if you cannot accept the an accurate criticism because it might hurt feelings then YOU are part of the problem.
Gennaro [Med School Prof, Retired]

cacocciula

Oct. 16, 2012 at 9:11am

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