Key Concept
A Journey Through Science
Assessments
What are ATL Skills?
I Communication
II Collaboration
III Organization
IV Affective
V Reflection
VI Information Literacy
VII Media Literacy
VIII Critical Thinking
IX Creativity and Innovation
X Transfer
Command Words
They indicate what approach should be applied to the information found.
Glossary
Relationship
Related Concept
Evidence
Global Context
Identities and relationship
Statement of Inquiry
to be a scientist means to gather evidence about similarity and difference in nature to understand how things are related
Key Words
Apparatus
Control
Experiment
Laboratory
Prediction
Questions
Factual Question:
How do scientists behave?
How is a laboratory different?
What IS an experiment?
Conceptual Question:
How are scientific theories made?
Debatable Question:
Can science tell us everything we need to know?
Now share and compare your thoughts and ideas with your partner, or with the whole class.
Learner Profile
Inquirers - we will be inquiring into the work of scientists and formulating our own questions for scientific inquiry.
Objectives
Find out what scientists do, the way they ask questions, and how we can start to be a scientist.
Explore the working environment of scientists.
Take action to help others think scientifically about media information.
Reflection
In this unit we have discussed how to think and work scientifically and formulated inquiry questions that can lead to scientific investigation. Within the scientific investigation, we have identified variables and classified variables as independent or dependent for experimental investigations we have carried out. We have thought about and listed the main features of a scientific laboratory, formulated rules for safe laboratory practice, and evaluated the environmental impact of laboratory activities.
ATL Skills
Media literacy skills we have analysed the way information about scientist is presented.
Information literacy skills we have researched information about scientists.
Critical-thinking skills we have learnt how to ask testable inquiry questions, to observe carefully and to evaluate what we observe.
Creative-thinking skills we have used brainstorming to generate and share ideas.
Collaboration skills we have taken responsibility for safe behaviour in the laboratory.
Assessment
Criterion B: Inquiring and designing.
Criterion C: Processing and evaluating
Links to Other Subject
Links to design: In the egg experiment we found results that would be useful to help engineers to design the egg carrier. Good design is always informed by data about the job that the product will have to do its function.