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. . . Some models explain and make predictions, though. These predictions can be tested and they should be.Making easy-to-verify predictions might be perceived as "risky business"by some model-makers. By making specific predictions they would offer paths for being shown to be wrong. Yes, I know that ideal scientists should be as happy with negative experimental results as with positive results. But that is a different topic.
This is what science does. If you don't teach in class that testing models is science's job, you are not teaching science. English and art and religion don't make models and test them. They are prescriptive and they tell how the world should be. Science doesn't know how the world should be. It just tries to figure out what the world is. . . .