Teaching Kids About Change
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007Over the past couple months I have been working with teachers and other people involved in education across Maine on the question of how we can do an even better job of teaching science. Everybody that I talk to agrees that we should be giving kids the tools and know-how to think about whole systems, rather than just knowledge about a bunch of scientific facts. Everybody also agrees that teaching about systems means teaching about change. Unfortunately, everybody also agrees that this is hard. Perhaps the way to get started is with a “vocabulary of change.”