Scientific Enquiry

Science is known to be able to unlock answers to questions that many of us are unable to answers simply by ourselves. According to Carey (2011) science is a powerful aspect to our way of life today by being able to investigate into phenomena's of social and natural causes and believes that science has the access to every unknown answer by processing through the scientific method. The method is a sequence of step that all kinds of scientist pursue when researching or developing a concept.

Scientific Method

The Importance of Scientific Enquiry within Education  

The way in schools deliver information about curtain subject has an major affect on the way children perceive them. Borrow (2010) believes that schools should advertise science and creative thinking in a more positive form to encourage children to become independent thinkers about the world we live in. 
Scientific Enquiry is seen to be an effective way for students to become more interested in the world of science. Score (2011) identifies that 'Scientific Enquiry' is a useful for students because it helps develop rationale thinking about specific projects and for students that are thinking to study science further develop a critical mind about the data and are easily able to think more in-depth about specific theories. 
The skills that students develop from participating in a lesson that uses science enquiry will also be able to apply them skills with other activities within their everyday lives (NFER, 2008). Therefore science enquiry is able not to just help students have a better understanding about the subject of science, but they are able to adapt their thinking within other subjects and activities which encourages them to become creative people and we are able to progress as within humanity.




 References
Image 1. http://edwp.educ.msu.edu/new-educator/2011/setting-a-new-standard/science-education/

Borrow, L. H.(2010) 'Encouraging Creativity with Scientific Inquiry'. Creative Education, 1, 1, pp 1-6. 

Carey, S. (2011) A beginner's Guide to Scientific Method. Boston: Wadsworth

NFER (2008) Scientific Enquiry Retrieved March 12th 2014 from https://www.nfer.ac.uk/what-we-offer/teacher-voice/PDFs/science-enquiry.pdf 

SCORE (2011) Scientific Enquiry and its Place in the National Curriculum. available at:  http://www.score-education.org/media/9498/scientific%20enquiry.pdf