Science Can Be Revised
Scientific knowledge is provisional — it is the best current explanation based on available evidence, and it can and should be revised when better evidence arrives
Typical age: 9–11 years
“Does your child understand that scientific facts can be revised as new discoveries are made — and that this is science working properly, not a sign that scientists were wrong?”
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- Could there be another explanation?
Provisionality of scientific knowledge is grounded in the habit of always seeking alternative explanations — science revises because scientists keep asking 'is there another way to explain this?'
- Reflecting After Learning
Understanding that scientific knowledge changes over time requires the universal learning-reflection habit applied at the scale of a whole discipline
- Correlation vs CausationREQUIRED
Understanding that scientific knowledge is provisional requires seeing concrete examples of how apparent patterns and causal claims get revised — the correlation/causation distinction is one key mechanism