1. Methods Lecture 1 Slides Colby Tofel-Grehl
Nature of Science
Methods Lecture 1 Slides
Colby Tofel-Grehl

2. What is Science? Write down what you believe science is.- 2 min
Pair and share. Distance students talk over mics to each other.
Group Definition

3. What is Science? Science is a way of knowing and looking at the world?
It is a specific lens for looking at the world.
Other lenses are valid, just different.
What are other ways of knowing and looking at the world?
Artistic
Religious
Social

4. What is Nature of Science?
Science is the systematic gathering of information thru various forms of direct and indirect observations and the testing of this information by methods such as experimentation.
The product of science is knowledge in the form of naturalistic concepts and the laws and theories related to those concepts

5. Reading
/am_bell_teach_nat_sci_scl a_.pdf
Spend 20 minutes reading and come back for group discussion

6. Key Features of Nature of Science
Science is:
Simultaneously tentative and reliable
Based in explanations supported by empirical evidence
Limited to the natural world, not super natural
Creative
Seeking to form laws and theories based in natural world observation