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8-29 Unit One Introduction
8-29 Unit One Introduction
Disclaimer: This session will be recorded for learning purposes. Learning purposes
include: a lesson review for students who are absent, students who want to review
for a test, etc.
hile youre waiting watch this video:
Science journal
on the webcam!
What will be learning and working
on this week?
Georgia Standards
S5CS1. Students will be aware of the importance of curiosity,
honesty, openness, and skepticism in science and will exhibit
these traits in their own efforts to understand how the world
works.
a.
Keep records of investigations and observations and do not
alter the records later.
b.
Carefully distinguish observations from ideas and speculation
about those
observations.
c.
Offer reasons for findings and consider reasons suggested by
others.
Write these in your science journal. We will discuss the answers at the end of
the lesson.
Have you ever wondered why
something happens?
What makes me
burp?
Why is that dog Why is that
barking? glow stick
What glowing?
makes pop
How does rock candy
the remote pop?
control my
TV?
So scientific method is all about learning about the ways things work in
nature and science, and finding out new things which can help them with
their work. New knowledge is acquired when the scientists perform their
work.
Also, scientific method might involve a scientist looking back at something
they learned a long time ago - and thinking whether or not they got it
right! Scientific method often includes scientists trying to make their
understanding of the world even better than before - so scientific method
is a very complicated thing!
Lets watch together:
Steps of the scientific method
An easy way to remember:
Pizza- Problem (state the Problem)
Is- Information (collect Information)
Hot- Hypothesis (form a Hypothesis)
Especially- Experiment or procedure
Double- Data (collect, record and analyze Data)
Cheese- Conclusion (form a Conclusion)
there can
only be one
variable
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-
Types of Scientific Investigations
Type Purpose Example Question
Field study To watch animals and How does this type
plants in their of bird migrate?
natural habitat
Systematic To collect information Why is the average
observation over time to look for temperature
patterns or trends dropping?
Open-ended To investigate What is a tornado?
exploration something with a
general question
instead of a specific
one
Controlled to test one thing at a Is this medicine
experiment time in an effective?
experiment
Check for Understanding
a. experiment
b. variable
c. hypothesis
Check for Understanding
a. experiment
b. Scientific method
c. observation
Learning Target:
:
1. What are the steps of the scientific method that we
talked about today?
The steps are: state the problem, gather information, form a
hypothesis, conduct the experiment, record and analyze data,
draw a conclusion, but can be repeated as needed.
2. Why do scientists follow these steps?
The scientific method is a way to ask and answer scientific
questions by making observations and doing experiments.
Scientists use this method to modify theories or to discard them.
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