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Welcome to Science Forward Fall 2014! This is a skills-based course that will focus on scientific thinking. The goal of this course is to help you develop your Science Sense. Science Sense is…
- being able to distinguish science from non-science.
- the ability to recognize how people collect and process facts into knowledge.
- the ability to recognize how a collection of facts becomes knowledge
- being able to question and evaluate information that is presented as scientific
- being an informed consumer, evaluator, and practitioner of science
We will focus on the specific skills that allow one to have good Science Sense. These skills fall into broad categories: Number Sense, Data Sense, and Knowledge Sense.This course also will focus on the confluence of Science, Technology and Mathematics (STEM disciplines) and issues of civic importance. We will examine the issues of plastic marine debris, urban biodiversity and climate change from a variety of viewpoints, use our own authentic data to inform the issue of plastic debris at the local scale, and think about how data can guide civic action to solve problems.
