Pseudoscience--What's It About?

Introduction

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Welcome: Pseudoscience--What's It About?

Description: Identifying the meaning of pseudoscience and the difference between it and science

Grade Level: 9-11

Curriculum: Science

Keywords: Science, Pseudoscience, Scientific method

Have you ever heard about Pseudoscience? If not, let me explain what it is and why people mislead this word with Science, which is totally different.

Pseudoscience is a term used to refer to a group of beliefs, practices or 'statements' that claim to be real and factual but are totally incompatible with the Scientific method. This means that those practices may be presented in our society as true, but they are actually fake, and there is variety of them at the present time.

On the other hand, Science is also a group of statements, beliefs and practices that by contrast, have been tested several times and there is one or more methods to make sure they are factual.

Identifying and distinguishing both of them at the present time is highly important so that we can know what to trust and what to not.

Task

Let's do an activity in groups!!!

In groups of 3 and with the following practices, let's get to know, analyse and argue why these are, or why these are not science(s).

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3. Astronomy

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4. Law of attraction

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5. Biology

Process

RESEARCHING TIME!

Here there are three websites we can use to investigate the previous practices:

2. Let's research the previous information and discuss with our groups for a little oral presentation arguing why it is, or ir is not a science.

Information registered ought to be written in each one(s) notebook's

3. At the end, we may present orally the information discovered and share with the class our point of view.

Evaluation

You will be assessed based in the following aspects:

Criteria	Unacceptable 0 Points	Developing 10 Points	Acceptable 20 Points	Exemplary 25 Points	Points
Participation	The student makes no interventions.	The student makes one intervention.	The student makes three interventions.	The student makes three or more interventions.
Cohesion and coherence	The information researched is misspelled and it is difficult to understand.	The information researched was moderately well exposed and it was a little hard to understand.	The information exposed was well constructed and it was easy to understand.	The information exposed was remarkably well exposed and it was satisfactory to listen.
Attitude and aptitude	The student’s attitude and aptitude are not acceptable for the class.	The student’s attitude and aptitude are partially acceptable for the class.	The student’s attitude and aptitude are acceptable for the class.	The student’s attitude and aptitude are completely acceptable for the class.
Information and arguments	The information is not factual at all.	The information is partially not factual.	The information exposed was factual and argued in a good way.	The information exposed was totally factual and the arguments were clearly and concise.
	Total points:

Conclusion

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Thanks to the activity above, we have mastered the difference of Science and Pseudoscience; we are able to explain the difference of them and realize about the plenty of practices that exist at the present time.

We all already know the importance of different opinions, thinkings and beliefs as well as the group work to realize about different opinions.

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By Samuel Aguiar Rodas

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