Berkeley debuts science Web site for kids, teachers
Science doesn’t have to be the boring stuff of textbooks, University of California, Berkeley, professors are telling children and their teachers.
A new Web situation, “Understanding Science,” dispels myths in all parts of science and scientists, explaining that everything from the automobile to the family cat have power to be better understood through science. Built by means of two UC Berkeley biology professors and a team of advisers, the site debuted earlier this month.
“The Web seat presents not the rigid scientific method,” related biology professor Roy Caldwell in a written statement, “goal how science really works, including its creative and often unpredictable nature, which is more engaging to students and far less intimidating to those teachers who are less secure in their science.”
Much of the site is ardent to correcting misconceptions, similar as that science is not creative and that all scientists are atheists. One part rejects the notion that science is done single by “old, white men.”
“The diversity of the scientific community is expanding rapidly,” the site says.
“Science is begin to anyone who is curious about the legitimate nature and who wants to take a scientific approach to his or her investigations.”
Check out “Understanding Science” at undsci.berkeley.edu.
