Students will be able to:
use the information from the text to
-differentiate between the steps of a scientific process.
Students do not yet have textbooks, so for right now, we are reading and studying the text via the overhead LCD projector.
Students have been learning about the skills necessary for scientists to make discoveries. The notes include:
What skills do scientists use?
Science is a way of learning abut the natural world.
Scientists use skills such as observing, inferring, predicting, classifying, evaluating, and making models to study the world.
Observing means using one or more of your senses to gather information. It also means using tools, such as a microscope to help your senses. Observations can be either quantitative which deals with numbers or amounts, or qualitative, which deals with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers.
Inferring is when you explain or interpet the thing you observe. It is not guessing. Inferences are based on reasoning from what you already know or based on assumptions you make about your observations.
Predicting means making a statement or a claim about what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence.
Classifying is the grouping together of items that are alike in some way.
Evaluating involves comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion about them.
Making models nvolves creating representations of complex objects or processes. Some models can be touches, such as a map. OThers are in the form of mathematical equations or computer programs. Models help people study things that can’t be observed directly.
Home learning 1, due tomorrow, can be found at the top of this blog. Be sure to follow directions!