The Secret to Successful Science Education
Why do Young Learners Lose Interest in Science? We’re Teaching it Wrong.
Science is one of the greatest innovations of humankind. It will become even more of an imperative discipline to our species’ sustainable continuation in the coming decades. With near-inevitable carbon emission-induced chaos, overpopulation, food shortages, and more, our future workforce needs to exponentially increase our rate of discovery and innovation to counteract these disasters.
And yet, studies over the past few years have found troubling perceptions of science. Many students find themselves discouraged due to perceived difficulty, others are dissuaded because they believe they’re too feminine for science. We are failing to inspire students to find interest in the world around them, resulting in a decline in science interest when we need it the most.
Despite this, there’s still an ounce of hope. With some modifications to the way we teach STEM, we won’t just reverse the decline in scientific interest, we’ll also have a shot at saving our species from its own failures.
The Scientific Method
We start off on the wrong foot from the onset of most science classes. We teach the scientific method like it’s a separate process from the rest of science…
