Science in Socio-Scientific Issues: Teaching with a Timeline Activity

Autor/inn/en	Foulk, Jaimie A.; Friedrichsen, Patricia J.; Sadler, Troy D.
Titel	Science in Socio-Scientific Issues: Teaching with a Timeline Activity
Quelle	In: Science Teacher, 87 (2020) 7, S.35-39 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-8555
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Unterricht; Lehrer; Science and Society; Science Instruction; Teaching Methods; Secondary School Science; High School Students; Science Activities; Nutrition; Educational Benefits + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lesson concept; Instruction; Unterrichtsentwurf; Unterrichtsprozess; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Ernährung; Bildungsertrag
Abstract	Embedding science learning in real-world issues is a research-based way to generate student enthusiasm, interest, and motivation for science. The authors advocate teaching secondary science in the context of "socio-scientific issues" (SSI). SSI are authentic societal challenges with connections to science, such as climate change, antibiotic resistance, and fracking. Because they are controversial topics, addressing SSI requires both an understanding of relevant science ideas and thoughtful consideration of an issue's social, economic, political, and ethical aspects. SSI-based units integrate relevant science ideas with social aspects of SSI and include lessons focused explicitly on each. Because of this, teaching science with SSI may require innovative instructional strategies. In this article, the authors share a timeline activity they developed that uses one such strategy to help high school students explore societal aspects of an SSI. The unit is centered around the SSI of a proposed tax on obesogenic foods, or foods that are thought to promote excessive weight gain, and is designed to teach about energy systems through nutrition at the high school level. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01