Designing Stories for Learning Science:

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the educational community towards use of Narratives in Education. Science education is one area where Narratives methods of explaining concepts are being tested.

This exercises provides an outline of the process by which a scientific concept can be explained in a narrative format.

Science is a process with a particular kind of Narrative structure. If someone has to do science, knowledge of the Narrative structure underlying a scientific inquiry event is a necessary condition to be learnt.

In the following next sections, the process for looking at a scientific concept as a Narrative is presented.