What Is Life? Q1. Find a media piece article, video, presentation, song, or other related to the scientific method, creating hypotheses, or designing experiments. Include the link or reference citation for the piece and describe how it helped you better understand how the scientific method is used to create hypotheses and experiments. Even children are capable of understanding the scientific method. On a website intended to help children with their science fair projects, the steps of the method are carefully outlined. These steps include asking a question; doing research; creating a hypothesis; testing the hypothesis through an experiment; analyzing the data; drawing a conclusion and also communicating results. The scientific method studies causal relationships versus the engineering design process, which involves creating something new. Each step of the process contains links to pages which provide further, specific details about each step, such as finding high-quality resources and constructing experiments with appropriate controls. Scientific method. (2012). Science Buddies. Retrieved: http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_scientific_method.shtml Q2. Find a media piece article, video, presentation, song, or other that recognizes the fundamental concepts of chemistry in biology. Include the link or reference citation for the piece and describe how it helped you better understand how fundamental concepts of chemistry affect biology.
.:6. Design a (hypothetical) experiment that adheres to the Scientific Method. Be sure to include all the necessary requirements at each step and give examples at all of the steps. Start with an observation, whether it’s real or made up, state the null hypothesis, and design an experiment (including an experimental and control group, random sampling, sample size, and reproducibility) that will allow the student to reject or fail to reject the hypothesis, and state the conclusion (20 points.)
The scientific method is used during experiments to find a conclusion and or reason as to why an event or something happens.
For the second part of your assignment, you will apply the scientific method to a real-life situation. You will select a problem that leads to a testable question, similar to the scenarios presented in Part I and explain how you would follow each step of the scientific method to try and answer the question or solve the problem. Note: you are describing only what you would do at each step; you will not be conducting the experiment.
2. Choose one of the research questions from above and consider it in more detail. Based upon the question, what would be a reasonable hypothesis?
The process skills approach to teaching is defined as the educator helping children develop science skills and processes to confidently undertake their own investigations (Campbell, 2012). These skills are developed through: communicating, science language, asking questions, making sense of phenomena, predicting, modelling, conducting investigations, planning, testing, observing, reasoning, and drawing conclusions of science concepts (Campbell, 2012). When the educator assist children’s learning, it is important to put the emphasis on the nature of science and scientific concepts. Guided discovery approach to teaching requires the educator to ask effective questions that encourage children to explore and extend their investigations throughout science learning (Campbell, 2012). This can be developed through play experiences as children explore their world around them. An interactive approach to teaching children is based on questions that lead explorations and the educators to provide essential resources to guide these explorations (Campbell, 2012). It is the educators’ responsibility to support children’s development, ideas, questions, ways of thinking, and develop scientific thinking. Furthermore, an inquiry approach to teaching relates to children investigating the answers to their own
John makes it clear that scientific research is essential and is not as easy as following step by step. It takes time, dedication, and most of all determination. When someone is determined they will do whatever it takes, especially thinking out of the box, to accomplish their goal. Overall, the essay was presented in a logical and comprehensible way that allowed the reader to understand how essential yet possibly hard it can be to use scientific research.
A) scientific process: The scientific process, also known as the scientific method is an organized way to help answer a question or to a hypothesis. The method includes six steps; make a conclusion, form a question, construct a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, analyze the data, and finally draw a conclusion, these steps can be modified once the process has been run through at least once for the same experiment.
1. Describe the context (why it was done, the general interest and what the researchers wanted to find out) of the research and research question (what is the hypothesis). /10
Explain how this lab helped you better understand the topics and concepts addressed this week.
1. (15pts) What could have been the students’ hypothesis? (Include specifics on what we discussed in class regarding a scientific hypothesis.)
Ceri Dean discusses many structures tasks in chapter 9 that can be applied to the classroom. In science, we use several of these throughout the school year. These structured task include problem solving and experimental investigation. The deduction method is typically used and explained as the scientific method. According to Dean deduction method gets better results than the induction method (Dean,2012, p.137). The scientific method in my class is dissected into parts and taught by example and practice. I want my students to be able to take any experimental investigation and identify the parts of the scientific method. By the time students get to 11th and 12th grade they should be able to identify and apply the parts of the scientific
The first step in using the scientific method is to propose something to research or experiment on, which can be motivated by curiosity, or even elevated interests. As you seek your topic, feel free to examine others’ findings who have done similar experiments or research projects. In Los 33, the question boiled down to, “Will
i will explain the methos i will use in my Project, first is to do an observation of your Project how to see it then, we have to ask the questions how, when we finish the observation we ask questions if we dont understand something when we finish of asking question we have to do the hypothesis we need to do the experiment we need to get all the stuff for your experiment with lets say you are doing a expeiment with ice and chocolate you need to bring the ice and chocolate you need to bring the ice and chocolate for the Project to work or the experiment will not work and then conclusión, conclusión is when you you just write what will happen with the experiment, maybe it will explode maybe it will not work. This is the scientific method that
They are given several minutes to explore. Students must find a desirable question to research and conduct the experiment based on their observations.
Science is, by its nature, inquiry based and science knowledge is built through processes in which discoveries of the natural world are made (Abruscato, 2000). It utilizes discovery and scientific thinking process to explore and learn knowledge and skills. Learning by doing is the new efficient method in teaching science. For kindergarten, this method leads to better understanding of science concepts and builds skills that children will use in future life .What a child can do with assistance now, they can later do on their own (Vygotsky, 1978). John Dewey (1916) stated that children must be engaged in an active quest for learning and new ideas. Inquiry is important in educating kindergarteners because it not only keeps them interested in lessons but also helps them retain more information when performing exploration and investigation. Children are naturally motivated to learn and actively seek out information to help their understanding (Piaget, 1950).The success of students who participate in hands- on inquiry activities suggests that if students have first hands experience with science, concepts are easier to understand and apply and students are generally more favorable to science and have better understanding of the nature of science .Within a conceptual framework, inquiry learning and active learner involvement can lead to important outcomes in the classroom. In kindergarten, students who are actively making observations, collecting results and drawing