Name_____________________________________ Hall______ Date_____________ Ms. Sameroff OBJECTIVE: SWBAT describe the goals of science. SWBAT describe the steps used scientific methodology. DO NOW VOCABULARY ACTIVITY #1 Activity #2 Exit 1-1 What is Science? DO NOW Examine the picture. What do you see? What kinds of plants might these be? ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ VOCABULARY Directions: Use your worksheet to define the following words. Science Observation Hypothesis 1 Independent variable Dependent variable ACTIVITY #1 CASE STUDY 1. What do you need to for hydroponics? Why? __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What steps did biologists and engineers take to develop modern hydroponic techniques? __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What other examples can you think of where biology and technology were used to solve a problem? __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2 ACTIVITY #2 3 QUESTIONS 1. Create a storyboard for an advertisement about science. Explain what it is, and what it is not. Pretend your selling science to a client who does not know what it is. Your ad must answer the question: What makes science different from other ways of explaining how the world works? Example 4 2. Why is it important that scientists collect and organize information in an orderly way? __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Why is it important to construct testable explanations? __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Why must these explanations be supported by data? __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. What is science? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ THINK, PAIR, SHARE How is scientific knowledge different from other types of knowledge? __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5 6 EXIT TICKET After the lesson, now I understand… ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Something I still need help with… ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 7 8
