{"id":9230,"date":"2019-07-25T13:51:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T16:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/?p=9230"},"modified":"2022-11-09T23:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T02:00:30","slug":"science-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/science-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Science education: 03 ways to improve your classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Catch and keep the attention of kids and teenagers is not an easy task. But if you are a teacher, you already know that (very well). So, I am writing this post to help you with this task. As teachers, we have the challenge of explain science education in a way that arouse curiosity. So, let&#8217;s see three ways to do that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>01. Explain how the scientific method works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Show how they can also can be scientists, with curiosity and questions, instead of give them&nbsp;just&nbsp;canned responses.&nbsp;&nbsp;Moreover, talk about the scientific method is a great strategy to fight against pseudoscience and fake news. After all, they will give more value to science.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/templates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9233\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/scientific-method-2.png\" alt=\"scientific method 2\" width=\"850\" height=\"1275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/scientific-method-2.png 2159w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/scientific-method-2-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/scientific-method-2-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/scientific-method-2-683x1024.png 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>02. Give them &#8220;real tasks&#8221;&nbsp;evaluation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Instead of only classic exams, you can give them tasks as creating a solution for a real problem. Ask them things that they can not find on google.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>03. Use visual resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Visual resources are a powerful tool to science education, because abstract concepts are harder to understand. Scientific illustrations can help you to explain abstracts or small things as molecules, atoms, cells or scales. They also are more friendly than real pictures, so use them as an ally to show human anatomy&nbsp;or medical procedures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9236\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dna-scale.png\" alt=\"dna scale\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dna-scale.png 1600w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dna-scale-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dna-scale-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dna-scale-1024x576.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you want to read more about it, check out these posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/slide-template-presentations\/#.XTjJnehKj4Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slide template: Attractive presentations one click away<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/chemical-structure\/#.XTjJo-hKj4Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chemical structure: Using illustrations to explain chemistry<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/flat-earth-science\/#.XTjJsuhKj4Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flat Earth and geocentrism: How to show that the Earth orbits the Sun<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All these infographics were created using Mind the Graph, an online platform for scientists, teachers and students. We have over eight thousands of scientific illustrations available for you. If you are not a mind the graph user yet, you can try now for free:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6577\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/start_get-mind-the-graph-medical-illustrations.png\" alt=\"mind the graph scientific illustrations\" width=\"250\" height=\"81\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/start_get-mind-the-graph-medical-illustrations.png 310w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/start_get-mind-the-graph-medical-illustrations-300x97.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catch and keep the attention of kids and teenagers is not an easy task. 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