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Re: Evidence (was Climate Change and Engineered Systems)
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Martin Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:34:51 -0400
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One other idea is that school suppresses creativity by making children
conform to restrictive curricula and testing. Not sure how valid this is,
though.

We (Margaret Evans, Jon Lane and Martin Weiss) found in testing children who
visited the exhibition Charlie and Kiwi's Evolutionary Adventure that they
(ages 7-10yo) could appreciate the evidence in the form of the fossil
Archaeopteryx for the evolution of birds from dinosaurs. They could explain
that it was good evidence. Fossils (in the form of bones) are very important
to children. Natural History museums attract children with dinosaur "bones"
(fossils) but don't often explain what the significance of the fossils are
for evolution (they are the evidence for evolution).

Martin

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Beryl Rosenthal <
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> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
> Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related
> institutions.
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> And as they get older, they are taught to the (high stakes) test, which
> means rote response.
> Beryl
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> Sent from my iPhone
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