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BRaSSS Physics - the scope of science - Years 9-11
This lesson explores the ways in which scientific methods and theories develop over time and the nature of progression in physics.
Students are encouraged to contrast the way in which physics is presented to them, as something fixed, with the actual process of doing physics through history, to gain a sense of the time that is often required for ideas to mature and be accepted. They will also discover that ideas are often presented in a rather different form to the way in which they were originally formulated, having had time and experience to reflect on them and gain a better understanding. Sometimes even the discoverer does not fully understand the scope of their own work!
Students are also encouraged to discuss the fact that most of the historical figures on the Year 10 physics curriculum are Western and male, and to understand the reasons for this recognising that other cultures have also developed sophisticated understandings of the world and that, in modern science, women are more equally represented.
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