Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Final Question

For your final question I want you to reflect over what you have learned this week about the "Nature of Science". Answer these three questions:

1. What is science?
2. Why is science important?
3. What do you like about science?


Your answers hopefully are not the same responses as earlier this week. I hope you have grown in your knowledge of science and what it is.

Think about this question and I want you to tell me and your fellow classmates how this questions relates to the overall topic of "The Nature of Science."

It can be one sentence long or it can be 5 sentences long. Provide examples, anecdotes, javascript:void(0)pictures and anything else that will support your perspective.

Collecting Data


An important feature of science is collecting data. A lot of data. Data should be collected all the time for the experiment to be considered good science. In order for us to become credible scientists we need our own notebook for data collection. By Friday, I would like all of you to bring a composition notebook. This will serve as our journal for a whole class experiment we will conduct and then you will use it for your individual science projects.

The Significance of Science

Here is our fifth question:

-Why is science important?

Think about this question and I want you to tell me and your fellow classmates how this questions relates to the overall topic of "The Nature of Science."

It can be one sentence long or it can be 5 sentences long. Provide examples, anecdotes, pictures and anything else that will support your perspective.

Can we believe Science?

Here is our fourth question:

-What makes science credible?


Think about this question and I want you to tell me and your fellow classmates how this questions relates to the overall topic of "The Nature of Science."

It can be one sentence long or it can be 5 sentences long. Provide examples, anecdotes, pictures and anything else that will support your perspective.

The Nature of Studying

Here is our third question of the week:

-Explain what it means to "study" something. something
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Think about this question and I want you to tell me and your fellow classmates how this questions relates to the overall topic of "The Nature of Science."

It can be one sentence long or it can be 5 sentences long. Provide examples, anecdotes, pictures and anything else that will support your perspective.

Is Science a Soloist?

Here is the second question I want you to be thinking about:

-Can science do work on its own? If no, what does it need?

Think about this question and I want you to tell me and your fellow classmates how this questions relates to the overall topic of "The Nature of Science."

It can be one sentence long or it can be 5 sentences long. Provide examples, anecdotes, pictures and anything else that will support your perspective.

Monday, January 18, 2010

The Nature of Science

Today in class we discussed the topic of "The Nature of Science".
I want you to start thinking about this question we brought up in class:

-What is science?


Think about this question and I want you to tell me and your fellow classmates how this questions relates to the overall topic of "The Nature of Science."

It can be one sentence long or it can be 5 sentences long. Provide examples, anecdotes, pictures and anything else that will support your perspective.

The next few days I will post the question we brought up in class. I encourage all of you to participate in this discussion as it will help you gain an deeper understanding of "The Nature of Science."