Truth in Science

Truth in Science

Schools welcome TiS resources

Thursday, 28 September 2006

Feedback has started to come in from science teachers who received a TiS resource pack this week. Of the twenty-five responses so far, sixteen teachers have said that the DVDs are a useful classroom resource, and only nine have said they will not be using them.

Here are comments made by teachers who welcomed the resource:

"...it is a great resource and I would like to thank you for sending it to us. I opened the pack during an A level chemistry lesson about amino acids and used it within 30 minutes of the lesson!"

"Thanks for sending the two DVDs to the science department. I watched one today and will be using it in critical thinking lessons to illustrate flaws in arguments."

"The resources have been implemented into our KS4 schemes of work and all staff are able to now access these. They are now written into our lesson plans as part of the AQA science scheme of work in topic B1b. The comments from the department so far are that they are a useful resource for teaching a sensitive and potentially difficult topic to students from all ethnic minority backgrounds. We have found the resources of high quality and engaging for the students to watch as part of a lesson. These are more useful than older resources that are dated and are not designed to make the students ask questions."

 

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Speculations on the chemical origins of life are almost universally covered in school curricula under ‘Evolution’, despite the questionable relevance of the topic for evolution, and its rather uncertain scientific basis.

Moore, A. (2008) Nature 453:31-32

 

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