Models of Teaching. When we step outside and look at the sky, day or night, we cannot help but get an impression of the marvelous vastness of the universe. We learn from our parents, our teachers, from books, television, and movies. We gather a whole host of stories, tidbits of facts, and bits and pieces of scientific theory to blend with our own impressions. We take for granted the idea of space exploration.
Many scientists work on project teams.
A problem to be solved or theory to be developed requires the efforts of more than one person's expertise. This does not mean that the scientist always works in groups. The concept of a team is to have a group of people with sufficiently diverse areas of expertise to bring a considerable breadth and depth of experience to create meaningful experiments and to provide robust critical discussion. In the classroom, experiments, research and other types of projects can be modeled after science teams to reveal the dynamics of real-world experience. This activity demonstrates how scientists work together as a team to accomplish a common set of research goals.