Hello everyone,
I am graduate student at Queens College. I am learning how to educate new generation of high school students in science. In order to be ready for classroom teaching I need to visit and observe classroom for few hours. In my observations in middle school I came across the mesmerizing questions students were asking their teacher while she was helping them prepare for regions exam in science. The question is: Why do we need to learn this(i.e. science)? Similar question repeated in 3 other classes i visited while the same subject of reviewing for exam was mentioned. While teachers explained the answer my thoughts drifted and i was thinking about the answer. Here is what I came up with:
It takes biology to explain how we take air in our lungs, it takes physics to explain how the lungs expand to create negative pressure that will push air in; it takes chemistry to explain the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide in hemoglobin; biology to explain breathing; physics to explain the vibration of vocal cords and so on and so forth. And all this is used to explain process of how the student will ask the question 'why do we need science'. Well dear student, we need to learn science so you will know how do you function and if something is not working as it should, how to bring it back in order in your body and your physical world that surrounds you. Science may seem hard to understand but look around you science is everywhere...
Here is wiki link explaning answer to similar question:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_should_you_study_science
