unit 1 - nature of science We started by learning about observations and how they are the most important tool used by a scientist. Without the ability to observe, science could be very different from what we know today. We then started to to learn about the definition of hypothesis and it's role in everyday science. After that we then started testing our hypothesis with things we observed in class. An example is the black box lab at the top of the page. After that we had a summerazation of all of all the things we learned and an added explanation of a law and how it is different the a theory. After all that we were instructed to make a web site on all the things we learned and did so far. After the web site assignment, we started learning about the metric system. We finished off class with learning about dimensional analysis, and accuracy and precision.  picture description This is a picture of some person observing something. This relates to science, because observing things is the back bone of science. In every day life, you make a bunch of observations that are involuntary and necessary to life. When someone says: " Describe that picture." You list all the observations you make. In science, when you are trying to see what happens when you put salt on a slug, that's observations. Without observations, we would still be cave men because we wouldn't have noticed the effects of fire, the power of a bow, the weaknesses of our prey. Observations have made us what we are today. |