In my experience (Canadian public school 20 years ago), schools _try_ to teach the scientific method, but I think the effectiveness is highly dependent on the s

In my experience (Canadian public school 20 years ago), schools _try_ to teach the scientific method, but I think the effectiveness is highly dependent on the school and teacher. I did countless science labs throughout school, and they all followed the scientific method: We were given a question, formed a hypothesis, performed experiments, analyzed the results and evaluated the correctness of our hypothesis. But this was never really described as the scientific method, or presented as some general framework you could apply to things in your life. It was just the series of steps you had to follow in science labs. Now, some kids might be able to bridge the gap between this process and the facts they read in textbooks. When you're presented some fact in biology class, it's because people have followed that same process iteratively to reach that conclusion. But in my experience, bridging that gap was left up to the student. Some kids figured it out, but I'd wager that most didn't.