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CATALYST (left side)
What is science?
Come up with a list of words that have to do with science.
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3 to 4 sentence summary across the bottom of the last page of the day’s notes
SCIENCE AND THE INQUIRY PROCESS
What is Science?
Share what you wrote for the catalyst with your partner.
As a pair, Create a definition for science Come up with 4 words define scienceBe ready to share!
Science & The Inquiry Process 8/14/08
What is Science? Write your answer here
WRITE THE NOTES ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE PAGE
Science & The Inquiry Process 8/14/08
What is Science? Write your answer here
Science is a Process
Scientists ask questions about how the world works
We discover pieces of the answer
What we know CHANGES
Science is a Process
Science is a process of constantly improving our
understanding of the world around us.
This means that our ideas change and develop.
Many ideas that were once believed
to be true have since been changed.
Science & The Inquiry Process 8/14/08
What is Science? Write your answer here
Science is a Process-scientists ask questions about the world-science helps us understand the world around us-constantly changing
Science & The Inquiry Process 8/14/08
What is Science? Write your answer here
Science is a Process-scientists ask questions about the world-science helps us understand the world around us-constantly changing
How is science a process?
It was once believed that the earth is
flat.
And that the sun revolves around
the Earth.
Eight Planet Solar System
Last year, it was announced that Pluto is no longer
considered a planet. Pluto is only about twice the size of its largest moon (Charon).
National Geographic
Technology is constantly getting better and
faster, which improves our methods for
scientific discovery.
Today, scientists working all over the globe are
able to share information with the
click of a button.
1867: the modern typewriter
1844: the telegraph
1876: the telephone
1944: Harvard Mark I
Linked adding machines and calculators
1966: the fax machine
1983: first cell phone network in the U.S.
1994: the internet
Improving technology also gives scientists newer and stronger
tools to investigate their questions.
An early microscope
Looking at blood cells
Light Microscope
Scanning Electron Microscope
Science & The Inquiry Process 8/14/08
Catalyst Answer to catalyst
What is Science? Write your answer here
Science is a Process-scientists ask questions about the world-science helps us understand the world around us-constantly changing
How is science a process?
Technology is improving-allow us to ask and try to answer new questions
Why is new technology
important in science?
WHY DO WE STUDY SCIENCE?
HOW DO WE STUDY SCIENCE?
Science
Through controlled methods, science uses observable
evidence of natural phenomena to collect data, and analyzes
this information to explain what and how things work.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
Scientific Inquiry
Way for scientists to answer all those questions about the world
Way to investigate an observable event and getting new knowledge, as well as for correcting and integrating previous knowledge
Science & The Inquiry Process 8/14/08
What is scientific Inquiry?
Process scientists use to try to answer
- Way to investigate how the world workquestions about the world
Scientific Inquiry
Make an Observation
Ask a questionConstruct a Hypothesis
Test the HypothesisAnalyze the DataDraw a Conclusion
Science & The Inquiry Process 8/13/08
What is scientific Inquiry?
Process scientists use to try to answer
- Way to investigate how the world workquestions about the world
Steps of Inquiry ObservationQuestionCreate hypothesisTest hypothesisAnalyzeDraw conclusions
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