{"id":1112,"date":"2013-02-10T12:06:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T09:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:29:31","slug":"why-discrepant-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/why-discrepant-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Discrepant Events?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have described <a title=\"Education Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/education-philosophy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elsewhere<\/a> why I use discrepant events, or, what in my own classes, I call Magic Show. Here are some more links on the subject and some discrepant events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bcramond.myweb.uga.edu\/home\/DiscrepantEvents.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Motivational Power of Science Discrepant Events<\/a>:\u00a0A University professor&#8217;s take on the role of discrepant event in Science Education. The page also includes a number of physics discrepant events.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachscienceandmath.com\/2008\/09\/24\/teaching-science-using-discrepant-events-to-engage-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teaching Science using Discrepant events to engage students<\/a>: Another educator&#8217;s description of why and how he used discrepant events when teaching science.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL7F82281E7CF467AB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science Discrepant Events<\/a>: Over two dozen short YouTube videos of discrepant events performed and captured on video by a group of middle school students.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plu.edu\/~vedrosr\/discrepant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discrepant Events<\/a>: Another page with a number of discrepant events.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/PhenomenaScience\/featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PhenamenaScience<\/a>: Another set of short YouTube videos of discrepant events performed by the same group of middle school students responsible for #3.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why use discrepant events in Science teaching? Links to article describing the use of discrepant events and links to more discrepant events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-discrepant-event"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/gunpowder-ideal-mixture-feat-image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Y7Kk-hW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4098,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/4098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}