Introduction to Modeling and the Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs) – Cullowhee NCCAT
NCCAT - Cullowhee Campus 276 NCCAT Dr, Cullowhee, NC, United StatesNC has new science standards that leverage Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs). Modeling is the central practice of the SEPs. This research-based, reform-oriented pedagogy helps correct the many weaknesses of the lecture-demonstration method of instruction found in many classrooms, including the fragmentation of knowledge, student passivity, and the persistence of naive beliefs about the physical world. Scientists learn by doing: they…