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The study associated with discovering and searching for an explanation. Only five
percentages differently believed that discovery of the evidence was accidentally
made; no scientific method.
After Lesson 5 was finished, students additionally showed the
developed understanding of science that is a complex social activity. Students’
discussion in role play focused on sharing the scientists’ ideas with others. The
students understood that “…scientists worked by observing, hypothesizing,
experimenting, summarizing, and cooperating with others... They needed to be
patient doing many experiments with loyalty… The used scientific processes,
exchanged knowledge to each other and did experiment”
The survey also indicated the understanding of science that is a
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complex social activity. Most of students, sixty six percentages, obviously
understood that scientists could not work individually. For example, fourteen
students noted that scientists published their discoveries to advance scientific
knowledge by sharing ideas or results, and thirteen students noted that scientist’s
work was building up on each other’s work. Additional seven percentages understood
that it was matter that scientists’ success must be caused with their honesty in finding
the answer.
Interview with the students, S01, S02, S03 and S04, strongly
supported the previous findings. S01 believed that science could be changed if that
science could not explain the present natural phenomena. Also, he focused on using
scientific process to search for the evidence of science: “the scientists had set the
hypothesis, done the experiment and summarized the results to develop new
theories…” Also, he believed that scientist’s work was building up on previous
scientists’ work.
S02 and S04 believed that an old scientific theory could be
changed by its error detection. Experimentation was used as proving ideas of
individual scientists. The scientists would get credit from the proving. After