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Science Shorts: Hypothesis Testing—It’s Okay to Be Wrong
Sun, Oct 26, 2014 7:41 PM
Confusing discussion of Hypotheses
In searching for something that would help elementary teachers understand that the NGSS is not recommending the use of "hypothesis" in K-5, I read this article. While the premise of helping students realize that "it's OK not to be right" is wonderful, this article falls far short of an effective distinction between a prediction and a scientific hypothesis. The "experiment' falls far short of being able to test a hypothesis... There is nothing wrong with students making predictions, as long as they have already done some investigating... After many such experiments, perhaps they will be ready to control enough variable, and formulate an "if/then" statement to form the basis of many experiments.
But not using this article.
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