Transcript Science as a Human Endeavour

What is Science?
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Science is discovering new information about how nature
works. Conducting experiments and observing change is
how we discover the mysteries of our world.
The word ‘science’ means ‘knowledge’ in Latin.
Term 3:
Science as a Human
Endeavour
• Define ‘endeavour’
-to try hard to do or achieve something
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Science as a Human Endeavour?
1. As a class read the Australian Curriculum explanation of Science as a Human Endeavour.
2. Discuss the points covered.
•Through science, humans seek to improve their understanding and explanations of the
natural world.
•Science involves the construction of explanations based on evidence and science
knowledge can be changed as new evidence becomes available.
•This strand highlights the development of science as a unique way of knowing and doing,
and the role of science in contemporary decision making and problem solving.
•This strand also recognises that science advances through the contributions of many
different people from different cultures and that there are many rewarding science-based
career paths.
Types of Scientists
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3. In a small group brainstorm different scientific descoveries and scientific career paths.
4. Share
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Astronomer - Studies the planets, stars, and galaxies.
Botanist - Studies plant life.
Chemist - Studies chemistry and the behavior, properties, and composition of matter.
Cytologist - Studies cells.
Ecologist - Studies the relationship between living organisms and the environment.
Entomologist - Studies insects.
Geneticist - Studies genes, DNA, and the hereditary characteristics of living organisms.
Geologist - Studies the properties of matter that makes up Earth as well as the forces that
shaped it.
Marine biologist - Studies the living organisms that live in the ocean and other bodies of
water.
Microbiologist - Studies microscopic life forms such as bacteria.
Meteorologist - Studies the Earth's atmosphere including the weather.
Nuclear physicist - Studies the interactions and make up of the atom.
Ornithologist - Studies birds.
Paleontologist - Studies prehistoric life and fossils including dinosaurs.
Pathologist - Studies diseases caused by pathogens such as bacteria and viruses.
Seismologist - Studies earthquakes and the movements of the Earth's crust.
Zoologist - Studies animals.
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5. In your group brainstorm different scientific descoveries and scientific career paths.
Alexander Graham Bell - Invented the telephone.
Rachel Carson - Founder of environmental science.
George Washington Carver - Botanist who was called the "farmers best friend."
Francis Crick and James Watson - Discovered the structure of the DNA molecule.
Marie Curie - Physicist who discovered radioactivity.
Leonardo da Vinci - Inventor and artist from the Renaissance.
Thomas Edison - Invented the light bulb, phonograph, and the motion picture.
Albert Einstein - Came up with the Theory of Relativity and the equation E=mc2.
Henry Ford - Invented the Model T Ford, the first mass produced car.
Ben Franklin - Inventor and Founding Father of the United States.
Galileo - First used the telescope to view the planets and stars.
Jane Goodall - Studied chimpanzees in the wild for many years.
Johannes Gutenberg - Invented the printing press.
Stephen Hawking - Discovered Hawking Radiation and wrote A Brief History in Time.
Antoine Lavoisier - Father of modern chemistry.
Isaac Newton - Discovered the theory of gravity and the three laws of motion.
Louis Pasteur - Discovered pasteurization, vaccines, and founded the science of germ theory.
Eli Whitney- Invented the cotton gin.
The Wright Brothers - Invented the first airplane.
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Science as a Human Endeavour
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