What is a Scientist?

"Science is a way of thinking, not an answer."

I hope to explain what science really is, and why its such a good thing (one of the most important in life).  But first, let's start with some examples:

Is Mr A a scientist? He worships spaghetti monster. Doesn't matter, lots of Christians are scientific and they worship similar gods.

Is Mr B a scientist?  He believes Earth goes around sun, is made of atoms, and humans evolved from prehistoric primates because he reads science books.  Doesn't matter what you believe.  Just because its in a book....

Ms. C read a website that earth is flat and evolution is a hoax.  Is one "right" and one "wrong"?  Maybe, but saying one is "science" and one isn't isn't the point.

What is a Scientist?

1) Open mind

2) Respect institutions that promote learning (process)

3) Experimentation

Teaching lesson plans

teaching lesson plans
1) find the center of the triangle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incircle



2) alphabet on beyond zebra cyrillic arabic etc

What's Inside the World?

A century ago people didn't know what the interior of the Earth looked like...but they had many ideas, extrapolated from what they did know: thousands of miles of jungle caves?? Feel free to contribute your own rendition of what's inside. The psychological importance of the Earth and our conception of it can be read off mind-maps like these. They say more about what is inside each of us than what is outside. But what is inside the Earth?