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When I was teaching one of my students' favorite events in science was when they are challenged with discrepant events. So what is a discrepant event? It is something that surprises, startles, puzzles, or astonishes students as they observe the event."

Sample discrepant events are used to cause contradictions in students' prior knowledge and experiences in support of their better understanding of science concepts.

Your students' future and education needs are not like yours and mine. For the most part, we are a product of an education system heavily influenced by the industrial age - lectures and rote memorization. This style of teaching was primarily designed to produce factory and skilled trade workers.