After protest from the scientific community, this statement was removed from later printings of the document. . . . The scientific community was co-opted into eliminating the most outrageous statements in NSES and making it appear to be more balanced than in fact it really is. Teachers focus inquiry predominantly on real phenomena . . . It thus is very different from traditional laboratory-based science, in which students learn to systematically use methods and equipment appropriate toward ends determined by the curriculum. Inquiry to educators includes activities we would consider prescience, and even antiscience.
Students explore features that make flight possible . . .
The distinctions among a projectile, a glider, and powered flight are never made, or even suggested. There is no inquiry into lift, or Bernoulli's principle. It merely allows a social science exercise to disguise as a science exercise. This is the true meaning of real world phenomena. There are two additional strands on technology, the result of legislation lobbied by Industrial Arts teachers.