Nature of Science - Colorado Springs School District 11

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Nature of

Science

9/25/2014 Agenda

• Notebooks – o Table of Contents o Nature of Science Vocabulary

• Pictures: o Period 1: 9:00 o Period 4: 11:20 o Period 6: 1:30 o Period 8: 3:30

• Heads up reminders: o Thursday: Open House 6-7:30 o Colorado Springs Balloon Classic this weekend! Memorial Park o Book sign up info

Notebook set up

• Front page – your name – you decorate

• Next 2 pages – Table of contents

• After table of contents, number your pages (odd on the left, even on the right)

• When I give you notes, those go on the right hand side. Your reflection, pictures, etc will go on the left hand side

hypothesis

• Define in your own words

• An educated guess

• A prediction of what will occur based on previous knowledge

• Write 2 examples of a hypothesis

Agenda 8/26/2014

• Learning Target: Students will be able to define

Nature of Science Vocabulary

• Table of Contents

• Nature of Science Vocabulary o Continue on page 2 of Science Notebook

Reminders:

Text book sign up on Mrs. Deen’s website

Balloon Classic this weekend

• Define in your own words

theory

• An idea generally accepted to be true

• Potential sources of error

• Define in your own words

law

• Scientific rule that is proven over time

variable

• Define in your own words

• Part of a lab or experiment that changes

Independent variable

• Define in your own words

• What you can change in an experiment

Dependent variable

• Define in your own words

• How your results change based on your independent variable

• Define in your own words

Control

• Does not change – something I keep the same in an experiment

Conclusion

• Define in your own words

• Define in your own words

Error

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