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Connecting the Dots with Real Science-4-Kids
School is about to start, and parents are deciding which books to use as they write up their lesson plans for the year. As a result, we get lots of questions about Real Science-4-Kids. Many people ask about the sequence RS4K books follow or about the materials needed to teach the curriculum.We also get specific questions about how RS4K deals with evolution and creation. “Is RS4K a Creationist curriculum?” many will ask. “Does RS4K teach evolution?” or “Does RS4K say ‘God created’?” people inquire.
Read the rest of this entryEvaluating science textbooks
When it comes to selecting science books, many parents find themselves in unfamiliar territory. They may have taken very little science during their formal education and may have no advanced training. In fact, science might have been one of the subjects they hated in school, making it all the more difficult to evaluate a curriculum. Having little expertise, many parents rely on “experts” to tell them what they should be teaching. There is nothing wrong with asking for advice from “experts” but it’s always a good idea to gather tools to evaluate a curriculum for yourself.
Read the rest of this entryWhat is science? Part 5
In the previous “What is science?” post I discussed the idea of different worldviews, or maps, when it comes to interpreting scientific data. That is, scientists can often agree about data, but because of their different maps they can get into huge conflicts over what the data mean. In this post I’d like to discuss what can be done about this conflict. Do we pick one map over another? Do we suppress maps we don’t like? Do we only support the map we find favorable? Or is there another solution?
Read the rest of this entryWhat is science? Part 3
In the previous post I defined science as the “practice of science” and the “interpretation of science.” Let’s take a closer look at what this means.
Read the rest of this entryWhat is science? Part 1
The word “science” is a relatively modern term derived from the Latin word scire, which means “to know.” It is not found in written documents before the early 1400s, and the word “scientist” wasn’t used until William Whewell introduced the term in 1834.
Read the rest of this entryReal Critical Thinking
One of the talks I am giving this year at homeschool conferences is called “Critical Thinking for Science.” I go into detail about critical thinking and how it applies to science. I write science books for kids, so I focus on science. But critical thinking applies to every subject, not just science.
Read the rest of this entryGalileo had an enemy and it wasn’t the Catholic Church
The fact that Galileo was persecuted by the Catholic Church for his scientific accomplishments is true. Galileo died in 1642 under house arrest after being convicted of heresy by the high court of the Vatican. Galileo’s crime was his advocacy of the Copernican theory of a heliocentric cosmos.
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