Re: "first form an hypothesis..."

[Bob Muir <muirrob@UNCG.EDU>]

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999 11:05:49 -0400 Michael Edmiston
<edmiston@BLUFFTON.EDU> wrote:


> We have a junior high science teacher who teaches this notion.  He
> requires all 8th graders to participate in a local
> science fair.  It's
> their whole grade for one grading period.  If the project
> does not have a hypotheses, test, accept/reject
> hypothesis format, the project fails.

There is a very nice book that does a good job of
illustrating that there is much more to science and the
methods of doing science than the above mentioned paradigm.
It is entitled "Science and Its Ways of Knowing", by John
Hatton, Paul B. Plouffe (Contributor)  ISBN: 0132055767
Amazon's Price: $30.90

The publisher, Prentice-Hall
Engineering/Science/Mathematics, says:
This broad collection of accessible
essays helps students develop a fuller
appreciation of the nature of science and
scientific knowledge in general and of
their own discipline specialty within
it. The focus throughout is on the
relationships in science between fact
and theory, about the nature of scientific
theory, and about the kinds of claims
on truth that science makes.

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Bob Muir
muirrob@uncg.edu