Transcript Warm-Up
Warm-Up •Study Notes from last week! Have you ever explained something to someone only to later find out that what you thought was a crystal clear explanation was confusing, misleading, or even incorrect? Activity • Do NOT show your partner your object! • Write 1 sentence that accurately describes the object in detail without saying what the object is • Give your partner your description and let them guess what your object is. • After you have both had time to guess talk about your descriptions and what was confusing about them and what helped your partner guess what your object was. • What did you learn from this activity? Detail is very important in Do you think that in science it science and can mean the is important for scientists to difference between use very accurate and correctly or incurrectly descriptive words to describe reading results from an things they are studying or experiment or directions for experimental procedures they completing a experiment. are conducting? Observations • What is an observation? -an act or instance of noticing or perceiving. -an actdoes or instance of viewing or What that mean? noting a fact or occurrence for some scientific or other special purpose Observations Write 3 Observations about me. Things that are NOT Examples of observations These are all examples of what a conclusion may be. Observations • Eats Brown candy Eyes • Listens Brown Hair to music Or because I work in Winston-Salem doesn’t mean that • I live here you Freckles Gives allcould A’shave concluded that because I am working here I must live here, or because I have candy on my desk eat it. (shirt and youis. would be • Lives What color inI must Winston-Salem my Because you have seem candy on my desk doesn’t necessarily mean I like it. You have taken a observation and made a conclusion about it. right about the candy) What can you conclude from today’s class? HOMEWORK • Read Scientific Method Handout. • Take notes if necessary. • Tomorrow we will have a “POP” QUIZ on this reading. • Make sure you have read and understand it!