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1. Start the game by creating 3-4 teams or 3-4 individual competitors.2. Give each team/competitor a bell or buzzer to use when they want to respond.3. The competitor with the birthdate closest to the day’s date begins the game by picking 1 of

5 categories off the game board (slide 5). Game host should then click and read what is listed on the $ square of the category chosen for anyone to answer. The competitor who rings their bell/buzzer first gets a chance to do.

4. To advance to the answer, click on the question slide or the arrow in the lower right.5. If they answer correctly, they receive the appropriate money award and choose the next

category. (If a team answers incorrectly, you can subtract the award money as a variation on the game.)

6. Have teams take turns choosing the category after each wrong answer. 7. When you wish to return to the board game, click on the “home” icon in the lower left

corner. Clicking elsewhere will lead you to a wrong slide.8. When all category levels have been exhausted, click in any of the category cells at the top

of the game board to advance to the final bonus round.9. Participants can wager all or part of their winnings during the final round, and thus lose it if

their answer is wrong or win the amount if their answer is correct.10. Winner is the competitor with the most money at the end of play.11. If desired, have a simple reward for the winning team and consolation prizes for the non-

winners. Winner and consolation coupons are included in the “Materials” section of the Activity write up on the SciEd.ucar.edu website.

INSTRUCTIONS

Materials: PPT game; bells for each team/competitor; play money in $10, $20, $30, $40, and $50 denominations. These are sample questions. Please alter them to best suite your Nature of Science curriculum.

Choose a category. You will be asked a question.

You must give the correct answer.

Click to begin.

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Bonus Round

Science Methods

Nature of Science

Science Terms

True or False

Names of Scientists

Name given to a scientist who studies

weather

Question 1.1

Meteorologist

Name given to a scientist who studies matter and its

behavior

Question 1.2

Physicist

Name for a scientist who studies the behavior of

societies

Question 1.3

Sociologist

Name given to someone who invents, designs, and/or

builds something to address a need and/ or problem

Question 1.4

Engineer

Name for a scientist who studies the world

beyond Earth

Question 1.5

Astronomer

Realm of science

Question 2.1

The natural world

How evidence is obtainedin science

Question 2.2

Observation

Characteristic that makes scientific evidence

reliable

Question 2.3

It’s repeatable, consistent, predictable

(Answer must include one of these words)

Science findings are always…

Question 2.4

Tentative

Science is not just content. It is also a _______

Question 2.5

Process

Our knowledge of the natural world and the process

through which it is built

Question 3.1

Science

Potential explanations for what we observe in the

natural world

Question 3.2

Hypothesis

Information gleaned from observation

Question 3.3

Data

To collect information from part of an entity

Question 3.4

To sample

Not of the natural world

Question 3.5

Supernatural

True or False:Science is creative.

Question 4.1

True

True or False:Scientific ideas are

absolute and unchanging.

Question 4.2

False

True of False:“Hard” sciences are more

rigorous and scientific than “soft” sciences.

Question 4.3

False

True or False:In science,

there is not a single“Scientific Method”but many methods.

Question 4.4

True

True or False:Science is a solitary process.

Question 4.5

False

In addition to observation, the process of science always

begins with…

Question 5.1

A question

A scientific procedure often carried out to test an idea

Question 5.2

An experiment

What a scientist collects from his/her observations to obtain evidence

Question 5.3

Data

An expectation of a scientist when his/her research is finished and results are

known

Question 5.4

Communication(publication, presentation…)

A short written summary about a paragraph in length of

one’s research

Question 5.5

An abstract

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