My partner for this was Sammie and the topic we were given was "Chemical Exposure". We wanted to show how working with the chemicals could be very dangerous when smelt or exposed to. Hopefully our poster remind students to not be so careless when working with chemicals in the lab, for it contact with them could risk their safety and health.
"If it's in your nose, you've been exposed!" This was our slogan and along with the slogan we drew a picture of a boy covering his nose and mouth as the smell of a harmful chemical is being released into the air.
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Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science is distrusted not because of what it can do, but because people don’t understand how it does what it can do — and that absence of understanding, or misunderstanding, of the power of science is what makes people afraid. … Just because you don’t understand it, doesn’t mean it’s bad for you — go figure out how it works! That’s why we need a scientifically literate electorate — so that when you go to the polls, you can make an informed judgment and you can draw your own conclusions rather than tune into a particular TV station to have your conclusions handed to you. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I agree that many people afraid of the endless possibilities in science. The human race is making discoveries everyday, and with that, everyday new findings and realizations are cast upon everyone on earth whether we choose to believe them or not. We learn something new everyday, and our knowledge about the universe around us begins to expand. We are born ignorant of the "What if" possibilities in our world. We are only taught to know what humans know so far. We are often stopped from wondering about outrageous possibilities, and we remain limited to the simple facts like "We live on a planet called Earth, we have a solar system of planets, our solar system is in the galaxy we call the milky way, etc." At a very young age we are taught these things without being encouraged to ask questions. I remember in elementary school, there would be so many books and diagrams of our solar system. Everyone had been taught that Pluto was a definite planet, no question about it. But later, we soon discovered and understood more. Meaning that our definition of "planet" soon changed after years. Pluto didn't fit the newly discovered definition and was then not considered a planet anymore. This is just an example of the limits that people art given when it comes to science. My main point is that at a young age we are taught things that we could never possibly know are correct. At one point in history, scientists thought Pluto was definitely a planet, but now as years passed, things have changed. The reason that some of these "facts" we are told aren't 100% correct scares a lot of people. In science we can't be sure of anything. For all we know we could be understanding our universe in a way that is totally wrong. But I always wonder, will we ever know the truth? It feels like an endless cycle, we learn somethings one day, then we learn another thing about it on another day. The facts keep on changing as we learn more and more. People are afraid of the possibilities. Science is too large to come to conclusions to quickly. Some people want to be set with facts and want to be told that their reality is the truth, they want to be told "this is this" with no doubt about it. But sadly for them, we are far from discovering the truth of our universe. We should later teach the younger generations to ask questions, to wonder about our world. It is the mindset that will lead us into the new era of science. If kids are curious, they want to explore, they want to venture, they want to learn. What better way to coming closer to new discoveries in science than having so many questions, just waiting to be answered. |
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