Should Space Science Be Taught In Schools

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Many people do not like to fail but did you know, failing is one of the most important things that make you better at things you struggle with. For example, Thomas Edison tried over 9,000 times to create a storage battery and failed 9,000 times to make the battery. But, by learning from his mistakes he was able to create the storage battery. Thomas Edison's quoted while trying to make the storage battery,” Results? What, man, I have gotten a lot of results! I know several thousand things that won’t work!” has inspired many schools throughout the US and the world to help students grasp a topic better by doing hands on activities and learn by mistakes. Students have also been able to learn better from one another by using each other to assist …show more content…

Because of the constant changing, it is hard for students to grasp the meaning behind a certain topic. But, if you use your own experiences and trials by creating and testing models to learn about a topic, you understand how it works better. Ellen Granger the head of the Office of Science Teaching at Florida State University, published a study in 2012 that compared teacher- based teaching versus student-based teaching(learning by doing projects or hands-on activities). She ran this study on fourth and fifth grade students understanding space-science concepts. The text states in paragraph 27 that the researchers found that learning outcomes were higher for students who enrolled in science classes that were student-centered. Granger also ran a test later on and found out that hands-on learning also helps throughout all grades not just elementary or middle schools. Because of Edison's famous quote our schools have changed the way that students are being taught and help the students to learn new subjects more …show more content…

Many people have been in these situations and have found out that being in group projects and failing is one of the best ways to learn. By being in a group you are able to grasp knowledge off of other students that a teacher might not be able to teach you. Students learn more when being able to work with other students because of having the help. The “help” means the ability of one student to be able to explain how one thing works, or how you solve the problem. By sense-making used in paragraph 28 , you feed off of one another and use the knowledge the person you are working with has and you might not have to make sense of the problem or question. Biologist and science educator Joseph Levine is trying to put inquiry-based learning into practice. Inquiry-based practice is the practice of using hands-on activities or groups to do specific things and learn specific skills. Levine states that through using this practice students will be able to learn skills more easily. This is another way that famous inventor Thomas Edison has affected the way schools are taught

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