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Monday, 9 October 2017

Mari and Nicole from room 26 explored what it means to work like a scientist during their ESOL lessons

Have you ever wondered what scientists actually do and what the most important rule for science is?

The most important rule for scientific work is that scientists investigate by researching lots of data. Scientists don't guess or believe in someone else because they could be wrong. That is why they retest. Scientists retest all the time, because their information has to be accurate. If scientists cannot have accurate results then they will be misleading people.

Another important aspect of how scientists work is that they communicate to share their knowledge with everybody. If they don't communicate they will not know what other people found out or to retest what other scientists investigated.

Many children think that science is all about explosions and test tubes, but it isn't true. Science is all about investigating, collecting data, retesting and communicating. If you cannot follow these rules, you are not being scientific and you can mislead people.

By Mari Jung




Do you want to know what scientists think, when they research effectively?

The most important rule for scientists is that they never guess their answers, because they could be wrong. Science is always based on true facts. This is why scientists do research and do many tests to collect valuable data to back up their research. This is completely different to pseudoscience. Pseudoscience is something that sounds scientific but it is not. Pseudoscience is not based on true facts.

Pseudoscience is not to be confused with science, because if you don't know the difference you could believe something that is not true.

By Nicole Fitzgerald

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