ABSTRACT

Science involves more than just knowing the scientific facts about the world in which we live. It is an active mental and physical process through which we gather evidence and make sense of data to extend our understandings and explanations. This is what Wynn and Wiggins (1997) call the road to discovery. Nor, according to Wynn and Wiggins, does thinking and working like a scientist, ‘require incredibly precise, highly sophisticated, other-worldly logic’ (p. 2).