Key Points:
-Keep a good notebook
-Vocabulary words are in bold font
-Icons will help alert you to important information
-Questions: What do these icons indicate:
Key Points:
-Pace determines how quickly you complete the course.
-Track tells if you are doing regular credit or advanced credit.
-Question:
How long does it take to finish the course (S1 and S2) with the
traditional pace chart?
What is different about the advanced track?
Key Points:
-Science is many things
*a body of knowledge
*a way of finding out about the world around us
-Scientists have many shared characteristics:
*curious
*open minded
*don’t give up easily
*willing to learn new things
-Question:
Who can be a scientist?
Key Points:
Scientific Laws describe an observation.
*cannot be broken
Scientific Theories try to explain the observation.
*they are supported by many years of experimentation and data
*they can change if new data is discovered
Question:
What’s the most usual reason for a theory to be changed?
A scientific theory is just a guess. True or False?
Key Points:
-Scientific Method is a process used in science.
*Purpose – What you are trying to find out.
*Hypothesis – Prediction about your purpose.
*Experiment – Test designed to answer the purpose. (Data is recorded as well).
- variables – the things that are changed
- constants - the things that do NOT change
*Analysis – Review and compare data from the experiment.
*Conclusion – Determine whether the hypothesis is true or not.
Questions:
What are some other ways that scientists can
investigate other than doing an experiment?
What are some reasons that might explain why
a scientist got different results when an experiment
was repeated?
Key Points:
-A measuring system that is based on units of 10.
-Used worldwide
-Base units
*length – meter
*volume – liter
*mass – kilogram
*temperature – Celsius
-common prefixes
*kilo – 1000
*centi - .01 or 1/100
*milli - .001 or 1/1000
Question:
Which metric unit is closest to a mile?
Which metric unit would you use to measure the thickness of a dime?
Key Points:
-You can easily convert between metric units by moving the decimal point
-Learn what the prefixes mean
-practice, practice, practice
Question:
How many milliliters are in a liter?
How many meters are in a kilometer?
How many centigrams are in a gram?
Key Points:
-Graphs are used to organize data.
-Line graphs are used to show how data changes over a period of time.
- Bar graphs are used to compare data.
- Labels and titles are very important.
Question:
Explain the data in this bar chart.