Categories: Comparisons
An example of a teaching analogy:
"The increasing atomic size as you go down a vertical group or family in the periodic table is similar to the pattern of increasing size shown by the spots on a giraffe's neck as you go from its head down to the body."
Source: Murray Hart, retired science teacher, previously posted at scienceanalogies.com.
Read examples of scientific analogies
Many examples of science analogies are listed in 'Creative comparisons: Making science familiar through language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts'. Free Download.
