1. Laws & Theories
Warm Up? What happens when an experimental result is replicated and occurs over and over, and over again?

2. Vocabulary: Theory Law
Benchmarks
Objective:
Distinguish between scientific theories and laws.
Identify examples of scientific theories
Identify example of scientific laws.
SC.7.N.3.1-Recognize and explain the difference between theories and laws and give several examples of scientific theories and the evidence that supports them. (Also assesses SC.6.N.3.1 and SC.8.N.3.2.)

4. What’s your Theory? Date Entry Theories vs. Law Notes
Theories vs. Law Chart

5. Video - BBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyISGVW ueYY
How can this popping popcorn be a Theory?
Can it ever be a Law that popcorn kernels pop?
Why is this video called the Big Bang Theory? What makes popcorn popping a Theory?

6. What is the Big Bang Theory?
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How did life evolve?
Primordial soup
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7. Theories vs. Laws T chart.
Theories: An explanation for why natural events occur developed from extensive observations, experimentation, and reasoning.
LAWS: A scientific principle that states what occurs during a natural event developed from extensive observations and experimentation.

8. BILLY PASSED A TEST. SORT THESE as a Law or Theory!
I passed because I studied for two hours and got a good night's sleep.
I got a 94% score, and missed the questions about gravity.
Replace with Science based examples.

9. LAW: I got a 94% score, and missed the questions about gravity. - WHAT
Why!
BILLY PASSED A TEST
THEORY: I passed because I studied for two hours and got a good night's sleep. -WHY
LAW: I got a 94% score, and missed the questions about gravity. - WHAT

10. Guess that Law or Theory
Law & Theory Bank:
Theories!
Laws!
Where/What is the game?

11. Theories vs. Laws T chart.
Theories: Def: WHY things are this way.
Plate tectonics
Cell theory
Evolution
LAWS: Def.:What we observe.
Law of Superposition.
Conservation of Matter
Natural selection