Nature of Science

Vocab: Science, Pseudoscience, Empirical Evidence

Day 1:  Sunsets, Souls Worksheet to preview discussion.  Survey on what IS and IS NOT science with the book

Day 2: Is it Science? Review Article.  Then compare traits of Science and Pseudoscience with a card sort. What are the traits of scientist? Mini Poster for Notes.   

Vocab: Empirical Evidence, Hypothesis, Theory, Law

Day 3:  Mystery Box Activity, Reflection and Research

Day 4:  Law vs. Theory PowerPoint, Notes, and Foldable

Vocab:  Experiment, Observation, Inference, Quantitative, Qualitative

Day 5: Let's Make Observations.  Elephant Observation Poem and Discussion.  

Day 6: Observation vs. Inference:  Potato Chip Lab and Quantitative vs. Qualitative WS

Vocab: Hypothesis, Independent Variable, Dependent Variable, Data, 

Day 7: What is a hypothesis?  How do we form a hypothesis? D&T Activity

Day 8:  What is a variable?  Variable PowerPoint and Foldable. 

Day 9:  The Simpsons Practice foldable and Hunger Game Practice for HW.

Day 10: Scientific Method Mini Poster

Vocab:  Model, Graph

Day 11: Graphing Notes and PPT

Day 12:  Zombie Graphing Activity

Day 13: Capt. Rupert Lab

Day 14:   Capt. Rupert Lab Analysis

Day 12/13: Capt. Rupert Lab

Day 15: Scientific Method Sations

Day 16: Book Review

Day 17: Test

Day 15: Task Cards                                                                         Day 16: Review