Activity 1

Activity 1 Worksheet:

Please read the following ongoing socioscientific issues and then answer the questions. 

Examples of socioscientific questions:

1. Are face masks essential to controlling the spread of COVID?
2. Is climate change responsible for floods, droughts, and other extreme events?
3. Are vaccines effective?
4. How dangerous is the Omicron variant of COVID-19?
5. How do we prevent wildfires or mitigate flooding?

(Osborne et al., 2022)

1a. Please note other current socioscientific issues.

1b. Is it feasible for non – experts to make informed decisions around all these (and many others) ongoing socioscientific questions?

1c. What are the skills with which non – experts need to be equipped in order to be able to deal with such socioscientific questions?