Reflection blog week 3

During this lesson, we watched many presentations on the scientific laws, scientific theories, and the misconceptions of scientific theories. Jess, Divya, and I also presented our own video. Kim was unable to make it for the presentation as she was doing her placement at SK kampung Lindungan. I learnt from making this video that there are certain concepts about theories and laws that are slightly complicated. However, when simplified in a engaging and interesting way, the concepts are easy to grasp. Thus, creating the video and watching videos that were well presented and succinct helped us to understand better. I also learnt how to create hypotheses. We practiced how to make hypotheses using "if...then" clauses. For example, "if a person consumes excessive amounts of sugar daily, then the risk of them being diagnosed with diabetes increases". Another example is "if an object is pushed off table, then it will fall downwards. What I am unsure of is whether or not this is the best way of making a hypothesis . For example, in high school, the method that we learnt for making scientific hypotheses was using "the more....the more...". How I would use this in my teaching is by getting students to make hypotheses on their own and thinking critically about effective ways of testing these hypotheses.