Discovery Science Chapter A2 Mr.

Daniel

What does attitude mean?

Attitude = Behaviour

Most important attitude to have?

Be Safe!

We need the right kind of attitude for a successful scientific inquiry.

BE CURIOUS OPEN MINDED HUMBLE CREATIVE

MEANING (SCRAMBLED)

Share information with others

Being fair Wanting to find out / discover

Admit when youre wrong

Able to accept new ideas Showing care for living things

OBJECTIVE
TRUTHFUL PERSERVERING RESPONSIBLE PART OF A TEAM

New ways to solve problems

Being honest about your results Working until a problem is solved

The correct meaning of the attitudes are?

BE CURIOUS OPEN MINDED HUMBLE CREATIVE OBJECTIVE TRUTHFUL

MEANING

Wanting to find out / discover

Able to accept new ideas Admit when youre wrong

New ways to solve problems

Being fair Being honest about your results

PERSERVERING
RESPONSIBLE PART OF A TEAM

Working until a problem is solved

Showing care for living things Share information with others

They are also printed on page 22 and 23 of your book

Science starts when we dont know something.

What do we do when we dont know something

There are 6 words that we use in English to ask questions. What are they?

why

what

where

which

when

how

To answer questions we need to collect information about the world by

When scientists observe, they see patterns. Example: Pure water always boils at 100 degrees Celcius at sea level.

Collect information about the world by

Important patterns that are accepted by many scientists are called Laws. Example: The Law of Gravity.

In science, it is very important to make accurate I CANT

SEE VERY WELL!

We need to measure things when our senses are not so accurate! Or when things are too big or too small for us to observe!

In science, it is very important to make accurate

You will learn to record data using measuring instruments in the next chapter. Examples of measuring instruments: Ruler, Thermometer,Stopwatch

When we talk, listen, or write we are

When we communicate we share our ideas with other people. We can do this with words: writing statements, or making a table from our measurements. Or with pictures, photographs

Please think of all the things that I can communicate to you with these pictures?

I am hungry I like Thai food What is this soup called?

I like to go to the sea What are these boats doing? I need a holiday I want to eat fish tonight!

When we make a difficult idea or problem simpler, we are making

Draw diagrams, Use charts and graphs or use SCALE MODELS

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A difficult skill

Example: What can you infer from this photograph? There is a fire!

WARNING: Inferring is NOT the same as Observing. Observing: A smoking building! Inferring: There is a fire! Inferring is using observations AND logic.

To explain observations we formulate a

This is actually an educated guess or a smart guess We do this after an observation!! We will try this in an experiment the next lesson!

Overview of the skills of scientists

Ask Questions

Observing
Measuring

Communicating
Making models Inferring

Hypotheses

Lets review
Observing
Measuring Communicate

5 Ws 1 H
Talk, Listen, Write See Patterns
Recording accurate data

Make Models
Ask Questions

Scale models, Graphs

Demonstration 1

Please draw the experiment in your handouts! What do you observe when we put the small glass on the candle? What do you think happened? THIS IS YOUR HYPOTHESIS! If I take a larger glass, what do you think will happen? THIS IS YOUR PREDICTION!

THE experiment: TESTING the prediction! Questions What do you observe? How long did it take (fill in the table) Do you ACCEPT or REJECT your hypothesis? This is the same as saying: Is your prediction True or False?

Measurements:

Beaker

Small glass
sec

Medium glass
sec

Large glass
sec

Time for candle to go out

Summary of formulating a hypothesis