Materials:
Lab-coat and safety-specs for instructors
Activities:
- Meet the scientists
- Discovering the Scientific Method
Conceptual understandings:
-Science is not a disconnected or abstract subject we learn in school but an essential tool that is required in a number of professions.
-Science is constructed following the “scientific method”. The scientific method is a problem-solving procedure that can be applied in any real-life problem. The scientific method consists of the following steps:
- Question
- Hypothesis
- Experiment
- Observation
- Analysis of information
- Conclusion
- Communication of results
- Further questions
Learning objectives:
- Science is relevant to all life activities
- Scientific method process can be applied to any problem to help-us reached an informed conclusion based on credible data.
Vocabulary:
- Hypothesis
- Experiment
- Observation
- Analysis
- Collaboration
- Communication
