Channeling Your Inner Science Teacher: Considering Context and Accuracy

by: Wendy Saul, Angela Kohnen, Alan Newman, and Laura Pearce

This chapter includes ideas for helping students put information into context (Standard IV) and fact-checking their own and classmates’ articles (Standard V). Up to this point, as we discussed the creation of a news story, you as a science teacher may have felt you were on mushy ground. In considering science context and accuracy, however, you may well feel that you have returned to terra firma. Once students have their idea for a story in place and have done the basic research, it is time to put the targeted and specific ideas into context and to check to make sure that the details are up-to- date and as correct as they can be.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 1/12/2012Stock # PB302X_9

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