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Biology: Please get out your vocab homework from yesterday!
Place it on your desk. Then get out your composition
notebook and get ready for the BELLRINGER
Today: Aug 23
FRIDAY MYTHBUSTER!
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Practice Thinking Like A Scientist: DAY 1
VOCAB QUIZ MONDAY!!!!
OUR key concept questions:
What skills do scientists use to learn
about the world?
Explain a time when you used any of
these skills? (at least 3 sentences)
• What attitudes are important in science?
Explain why they are important!
Describe which attitudes you possess and
how you will utilize them in this class.
•
August 26, 2013
Biology: Vocab Quiz today! Study!
Today:
Vocab Quiz
Continue with Thinking Like A Scientist
Activity!
Pass out books!!
HW: Finish Discussion Questions
Thinking Like A Scientist
Day 1 Activity!
Curiosity, Creativity!
WHY ASK WHY?
Why is the sky blue? How do people move?
Will bacteria grow if the air is heated?
These types of questions and the search for
their answers form the basis of all
science!
Each group will be given an object!
Please be careful...they are mine!!
Study the object closely and think of at
least 20 questions about the object!!
Each person should write down their
questions on their own paper…
SHH NO DISCUSSING Right now!!
Now… like scientists, compare your
questions with those people in your
group.
Choose one or two questions that interest
your group!!
As a group brainstorm secondary questions
to help answer the original question!
Be Creative!
Brainstorm possible answers to your
questions!!
Choose at least two or three questions and
answers to share with the class!
Biology: Please get out your
discussion questions from yesterday!
Today: 8/27/2013
Discuss-Why ask why? Questions
Design an experiment
Pre-assess Scientific Method
HW: None
Possible Quiz FRIDAY!!
Discussion Questions:
1. When you compared your list of questions with others
in the group, did all the lists have the same types of
questions? What could account for the similarities and
differences between the lists?
1. Why do you think you were asked to create two sets of
questions? What is the purpose of the secondary
questions?
3. Think about one question from your list that you would
like to answer. What steps could you take to answer
that question? Do you think there is more than one
"right" way in which to find the answer? Why or why
not?
4. The physicist Albert Einstein wrote "The most beautiful
thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
source of all true art and science." What do you think
he might have meant?
Experimental Design!
Take it a step further!
Design an experiment to answer one of
your questions!
Money is no object!!!
Are any of your questions testable?
This activity is to indicate what you know
about experimental design.
Scientific Method: Pre-test
Please answer the following questions to
the best of your ability.
DO NOT WRITE ON THE PRE-TEST!