Learning Resources
If All Models Are Wrong, Why Do We Use Them?- Learning Labs
- Science Education Webinars
- Conceptual Coherence: Strong Links in the Chain
- Misconceptions: What You Don't Know Can Help You Learn
- If All Models Are Wrong, Why Do We Use Them?
- Whoa, Why Did That Happen?
- Citizen Science for Students
- Causation and Correlation: A Primer
- It's in the Details: Exploring NGSS Evidence Statements
- Nature of Science: View, Process, and Product
- Cutting Across the Sciences in NGSS
- Experiences, Language, and Sensemaking: Tools for Teaching in an NGSS Classroom
- Progressions: The Path to Scientific Understanding
- Phenomena in Science Instruction: Not Just Learning About, but Figuring Out
- Jr. Science Cafés
If All Models Are Wrong, Why Do We Use Them?
Modeling is a central practice in science. Yet, models are not the answer to science questions: they are a tool that scientists use to make their thinking visible, advance their understanding of complex systems, and explain phenomena. Models are built using available data, which is always changing, and thus models themselves are always changing. Learn about how scientists use models to answer real-world questions and how that translates to the classroom.
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