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Question by Innovater Jill: What do you think about the lack of interest in science? The public in America doesn't seem as interested in science as they used to. This applies to mainly United States teenagers (the next generation). Most of the kids won't take science seriously. I'll be like, "But this is what powers your I-pod!" This country ran on innovations and still needs to this day. Now there seems to be a gap of scientists and engineers. What do you think is the cause of young people not pursuing science? Best answer for What do you think about the lack of interest in science?:
Answer by Frank N
How about schools operated by governments and unions? How about an increasingly socialistic society that taxes individual effort rather than rewards it? How about masses of people who choose to be so shallow that they value entertainment over anything of substance? The list goes on and on.
Answer by knashha
It's quite simple..young people want to know what the bottom line is. Where is the fulfilling payoff at the end of the rainbow? What is it that impacts my humanity perse and not just the science part of my brain while i watch the other parts wither. How obvious can this get? Shall i subject myself to persuits while my heart shrinks? This is only part of it.
Answer by Dhruv A
"next generation" do u mean generation y? like the people who are currentlu 5-20 or so? ummm well so is our drop rate increasing u see.... like all people are just looking for an offutunity to quit school and start doing work..... like science is NOt not notNOTNOTNOTNOTNOTNOTNOT an easy subject like i looked at my schools grade 11 text book and my vision went blurr....like even with all the colors and stuff it was confusing........ like kids are intrested in cience it grade 8cuz its all fun with backing soda and vinegar....and then you start to learn the vinegar is asetaic acid CHOCOO (or something) .....obviously people are going to quit....its TOO sudden......have you watched tyhe movie "idiocracy"? ,...its a very good movie about how only a part of the world is moving forward and the the other part consists of fat slobbish consumers..who dont want to learn....like the world is going dumber...really recommend it! its an awesom movie... people are also not persuing science because it doent pay!!!!! people need hard cash in their hands.......engineering pay ON THE SPOT.....science is all about patience and time.... like its research ...thing cant just POP out of the microscope....u have to look for them......it always comes down to money....
Answer by eri
I give planetarium shows at my university. I've found up until about junior high school age (6th grade and below), kids are VERY interested in science. It's all really cool and they have tons of good questions. But after that, it all starts going downhill - it becomes geeky to be interested in anything connected to school, like science. Even the ones who do still care are afraid to show it. And there's far too much of an anti-intellectualism culture in the US these days. Frankly, I blame the churches for mis-representing science, blaming it for society's problems, and telling people they'll go to hell for accepting basic scientific facts.
Answer by secretsauce
I blame two factors. First, undervalued shoolteachers. Anyone with a degree in science can make a *lot* more money as a researcher, in universities, or just in any other field, than they can ever get as a grade-school or high-school science teacher. How many schools do you know where "Coach Jim" doubles as the Biology teacher, or a History teacher switches to Chemistry out of necessity. This is NOT to say that there aren't a lot of great, dedicated, knowledgeable science teachers. I know *many* of them. My point is that there are also a lot of teachers teaching science who don't have a true feel or *love* of the topic ... or who may even have hated science as a kid themselves. As a result, science teaching reduces to rote. Every time I see some kid here on YA trying to memorize the Krebs' cycle, or the phases of mitosis, but doesn't know what the word "theory" means, or the difference between "evidence" and "proof", I am just appalled. The second factor is the resurgence of a small but vocal minority of Christian fundamentalists who have waged a relentless *war* on science. They start with the battle on evolution ... but this escalates to a battle with all of biology (as they are demanding a removal, or at least isolation, of evolution in Biology, which is like trying to rid Chemistry class of any mention of atoms) ... and then with Geology (as the geologists are backing up the biologists by saying the earth is rather old) ... and the Environmental scientists (with their liberal 'global warming' conspiracy backed by discussions of climate change over "millions of years") ... and then with Physics (as the physicists are clearly wrong on the issues of radioactive decay or even the speed of light) ... and Astronomers (and their stupid theories about galaxies "millions of light-years" away) ... and Astrophysicists (with their big bang theory, or even that the sun took a million years to form). In short, there is no branch of science safe from attack from the creationists in an ever-expanding demand that all of science must fit a *literal* reading of a few passages of the Bible. The resulting message from many fundamentalist parents to their children is that scientists as a profession are stupid, immoral, God-hating liars, and not to be trusted. I have even encountered two *science teachers* here on YA! who feel this way ... about science! It seems that some Creationists feel so strongly about opposing evolution, that they become science teachers to do so. (!!!) Even if the science teacher isn't a creationist, often their boss (the principal) is, or there are members of the school board, or state legislators, or angry parents just waiting for the teacher to say the "e-word" before demanding an angry conference to stop exposing their child to Godless lies. Put those two things together, and we have a recipe for people who *distrust* science ... growing up and teaching their children to do the same ... and in some cases becoming the next generation's science teachers! Repeat for a few generations. Result: The U.S. is now 33rd out of 34 countries in a science survey about acceptance of evolution. #33 in a *science* survey! I'm so proud.
Answer by GGG
Science at one time seemed interesting to teenagers.... Decades ago there was nothing interesting. No internet, no video game, no online porno, no TV --- zip..... Now teens just emerse themselves in entertainment and science seems boring.....
An electricity science fair project may be set up as a part of high school or college science fair or just for fun and learning. An electricity science fair project is aimed at demonstrating the major methods of generating electricity, its principles, applications and other principles such as chemical energy, electromagnetism, static electricity, resistance, etc.
For organizing an electricity science fair project, the students need three things:
1. They should have extensive theoretic knowledge of the projects they are going to build. For this purpose, they may have to consult books and encyclopedias.
2. They need the guidance and assistance of their science teachers or perhaps of external knowledgeable advisors.
3. They need certain materials like convex mirrors, reflectors, concave mirrors, insulators, conductors, light bulbs, fuses, wires, on-off switches, step-down transformers, holders, mazes, circuits, electromagnets, and many more. The pieces that they need for these types of experiments are sometimes hard to come by.
Nowadays, unlike years earlier, commercial ready-made kits are available that make the setting up of electricity science fair project easy. Though they cannot be used directly as project models, they can be used in specific electricity science fair projects. One can get basic or advanced kits for the projects, but remember, if it was available to you, it might be available to someone else. Duplicate experiments are not good for judges to see.
Some of the examples of electricity science fair projects are listed below, but are not limited to the following ones:
* Demonstrating the effects of electric fields on plants
* Carrying out experimental exploration of the photoelectric effect
* Carrying out experiments with electron diffraction
* Building models of a simple electrostatic motor, a wooden generator, a Van de Graaf generator, a wind generator, a water t urbine generator, and demonstrating their operations
* Performing Faraday's "Ice Pail" experiment and explaining the mechanism of electrostatic induction
* Building an electroscope and demonstrating the existence of positive and negative charges and of two kinds of materials: the insulators and the conductors
* Demonstrating how lightning is produced
* Demonstrating how light is faster than sound
* Demonstrating the role of electricity in separating a mixture of salt, sugar and pepper
* Demonstrating static electricity with the help of the jumping effect on rice flakes kept on a tabletop
* Building a working model of an electric cycle, electric tricycle and an electric car and demonstrating the involved principles
* Demonstrating the way a hydroelectric plant generates electricity with the help of water.
None of the above-mentioned electricity science fair projects need expensive or rare materials, but instead, they simpl y require the relatively easily available ones. Moreover, any high school student can do most of these projects under the supervision of an elder, be it parent or a teacher.
Electricity science fair projects remind us of the fact that electricity is indispensable to mankind, and can provide a good segway for the student into a high paying career in the field of electronics or electricity.
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