105 SCED 1. Science is the ability to looks at the worlds phenomena and be able to explain it through experiments and results. Not necessarily being limited to the scientific method, but through many other ways of obtaining information. Science is a field based on why and how things happen. 2. The main difference between science and technology is experiments in science are always being done but technology on the other hand, only advances when both science and society have needs to fulfill and a problem to solve. Science does fuel technology and technology does fuel science. Its a never ending cycle. For example basic science would not advance without the development of particle accelerators, chromatographs, etc. But on the other hand there would be no reason for technology to develop these things without the discovery of atoms, or DNA. 3. Science is an art that is based upon hypothesis and backing that hypothesis through facts. While religion and myths do influence society greatly, the science society is different. While there is a view that science and religion are in a war with each other I see it differently. I say Im above this and take science for what it is, and religion for what it is. The man who mapped out the human genome was extremely religious but that didnt hold him back. 4. I found it interesting in the society section on how much the State of Texas influenced the whole Super Collider Project and had it stop as a whole. Its amazing just how much our beliefs and politicians go into what exactly is studied in science. I also it found interesting just how much the cause and effect relationship is played in science as a whole. But when looking back at it, in the end it might be one of the best ways to look at the world as a whole. If we could find what caused what and how if it is a negative, how it can be solved, the world would be perfect. 5. In reading the mathematics section its amazing to just see how much math has played a role in how much we actually have advanced in science. Math isnt my most favorite thing but I do have a lot of respect for it after reading that section. I was also puzzled by just how much models have shaped this world as a whole. In comparing the theory of evolution, and the model of intellectual design, there is so much that is compared between the two, while one has been studied over a couple hundred years and the other has been just developed and isnt necessarily based on scientific facts and studies. We as a society as a whole tend to look beyond this and just go to a conclusion without breaking things down piece by piece. 6. I feel what we read is extremely important as to who we are as a science teacher. What we read, if its the first thing weve ever learned about a particular subject, that opinion tends to stick in our mind whether from a scientifically standpoint its right or wrong. By getting the right facts and ideas we can help teach the right thing to students so that they can then tell their parents or pass there ideas along to others. In the end, sometimes what we read, hear, and see will shape who and what we are.