Laohaphaibool (1992) argues that science teaching should not only provide pure science
concepts, but also consider the relationship between science, technology and society. This way
of science teaching could enhance students’ scientific literacy, he suggests. To provide science
teachers with ideas for teaching for scientific literacy, he produced a pyramid analog (Figure
1). Here an individual’s intellectual development is a triangle that forms the base of a pyra mid. In order to form the pyramid, a triangle is placed at the base of pyramid, and requires
three other triangles to make up scientific literacy. These three triangles include: (1) understanding
of the environment, (2) thinking process and reasoning to investigate knowledge
about those environment, and (3) scientific habits of mind.