Today is Tuesday 3/19 Learning Target: I can identify important parts of the scientific process. Homework: Day 1 AIMS Study Guide (complete on the paper AND on Google Classroom) You will need: Pencil Highlighter (if you have it) Day 1 AIMS Study Guide Day 1 AIMS Notes Piece of paper folded in thirds.

This Week Each day is devoted to reviewing a topic on the AIMS test (which is Tuesday) Every day you will get a “study guide” for that topic and notes about it. Your homework every day will be to complete the study guide and then put your answers into a google form on google classroom. You will get credit for completing the notes as well as doing the study guide. You can take the google forms as many times as you want and it will give you feedback so you can correct your work.

Today’s Topic: The Scientific Process

How would you test a scientists ability to do these things??? Before we do the notes….. Brainstorm as many things as you can that scientists do before, during, and after experiments. How would you test a scientists ability to do these things??? Before Experiments During Experiments After Experiments

What will you be tested on: Study Guide for each topic but it will be basically everything you have learned. Your study guides will have the standards that you are supposed to learn, An explanation of how they will test your knowledge about those standards, and a few sample questions. In class we will read and explain the standards and refresh your memory with a few notes, After class you will complete the sample questions on the paper AND on google classroom.

Step 1: Read the Standards. Highlight the # of questions each standard will have on the test. Circle anything you think is important to remember.

Brief Notes: observations We develop questions and experiments from ___________________. Testable Questions: Can’t be based on ______________. Must include something you can _______________ and something you can ________________. From testable questions come a _______________. Not always an if, then, because statement. Must have something ________________ to see if something else changes. opinions change measure hypothesis You change

Everything else must be ______________. Examples: Controlled Investigations: When testing a hypothesis you can only change _________ thing at a time. Everything else must be ______________. Examples: Sit-up experiment: ____________________________. How does sunlight affect plant growth:______________________. Scientific tools: A balance measures _____________. A graduated cylinder measures_______________. one controlled Each person has to start at the same time, have the same amount of weight, consistent counting, etc. Only change sunlight, everything else (water, soil, temperature, etc) needs to be the same mass volume

Trends in Data: Can be seen in a ________________________ or ___________________. What direction is the data going? Line graph Scatter plot

reliable We can only trust your data and your experiment if it is ________________ and ____________. Reliable: can it be repeated? Lots of trials, large sample size Valid: Did it test what you wanted to test? Control all variables valid

Choose the Right Graph Line graph, or scatter plot _____________________: change over time, correlation between variables ________________: comparing ________________: shows the frequency of something. Use it when there are a lot of numbers repeated. __________________: looks like a bar graph but shows what a stem and leaf plot shows. Bar graph Stem and leaf plot histogram

Major Scientific Milestones: ______________________: anything with DNA, genetics, or heredity. Cloning, hybridization, GMO’s (genetically modified organisms) ______________________: anything physics related 1st law: seatbelts 2nd law: forces and vehicles, etc. 3rd law: rockets and space travel, etc. Gregor Mendel Isaac Newton

Questions?

Homework: Complete Sample Questions on Study Guide and put your answers on the google form!!! You can submit multiple times so after you submit it go back and check your work and make corrections!!!