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| Paper: |
Using Solar System Topics to Teach the Scientific Method in an Age of Science Denial |
| Volume: |
473, Communicating Science |
| Page: |
195 |
| Authors: |
Lo Presto, M. C. |
| Abstract: |
A number of excellent opportunities to remind students of the scientific method and how the process of science works come about during coverage of common topics in a Solar System “unit” in an introductory college astronomy course. With the tremendous amount of misinformation about science that students are exposed to through the Internet and other forms of media, this is now more important than ever. If non-science majors can leave introductory astronomy, often the only science course they will take, with a decent appreciation of, or at least an exposure to, how science works, they will then be better able to judge the validity of what they hear about science in the media throughout their lives. |
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