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From: John Clement <clement@HAL-PC.ORG>teach "the scientific
Well the textbooks are certainly no help. They still
method" which has been thoroughly discredited. Seethe latest issue of Jour
of Res of Sci. Teaching.Okay THIS got my attention. The scientific method has
Maybe we should use the work model instead oftheory. After all a theory is
just a model we have constructed which reflectsreality as we perceive it.
As such a model is subject to revision, but does nothave the baggage of
being just a theory. The word model also impliescraftsmanship.
I've used the model concept for a long time in my