I wan to make a request to #Science #Teachers: When you design labs please design some (most) without step-by-step instructions. The chances of your students needing pipette skills in 10 years is remote. What will serve most student better will be the ability to identify a problem, design and experiment that might explain that problem, setup and run that experiment, then interpret the results. Perhaps followed up by design a second experiment if the first didn't help.
Save the "follow the recipe" skills for home ec. The most important thing you can teach your student at any level is experimental design.
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Im a bit confused as to what your suggesting, and before I formed an opinion I wanted some clarity.
So are you suggesting to leave out the step by step instructions because you want them to solve the problem on themselves and figure it out with less instruction so they learn more through trial and error?
Or are you suggesting pippette skills and similar skills, since they wont be needed in 10 years, should be skipped entierly, and you are suggesting this because the other skills are important, so more time should be focused on those?
@freemo First apologies, I imagine your skill with a pipette is unmatched.
My suggestion is that science labs should be a place to practice problem solving, deductive reasoning, and the scientific method. The labs I see especially in high school and lower division college classes are about who can follow step-by-step instructions to get closest to a predetermined correct result. The person who comes closest to measuring exactly 10.0ml of HCl wins.
