I feel similarly about my high school general science class. The teacher tried to make it hands-on etc. by having us run experiments and do simple engineering within the theme of the current topic, but a. he rarely explained the prerequisites to the projects and b. he still treated them as “one right answer”, and you would receive a poor grade if your experiment had odd results or your project didn’t meet the standards.
I feel similarly about my high school general science class. The teacher tried to make it hands-on etc. by having us run experiments and do simple engineering within the theme of the current topic, but a. he rarely explained the prerequisites to the projects and b. he still treated them as “one right answer”, and you would receive a poor grade if your experiment had odd results or your project didn’t meet the standards.