How to Teach Science and Avoid Common Mistakes

About this episode

This episode discusses how to effectively teach science and avoid common pitfalls in the process.

Science is more than a classroom - it’s actually pretty difficult to define. Science is not about what we know, but rather about how we face what we don’t know. It’s not a textbook of principles, set of rules, or collection of factoids. It’s a process, a thing you do. Science is what happens when you ask questions, get back answers, and try to figure and make sense of it all. Science gives you a way to ask questions and get back answers. There are many different ways to do this, the Sci...

Topics covered

• science education
• teaching methods
• common mistakes
• inquiry-based learning
• science process

Keywords

• science
• education
• teaching
• inquiry
• learning process

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