1. 4/18/16
AIM: How did the Scientific Revolution emerge from humanistic beliefs in Europe?
Do-Now: What is the scientific method? (Think what you have done in Living Environment).

2. The Scientific Method
By the early 1600s, a new approach to science had emerged, known as the Scientific Method.
Scientific Method – painstaking method used to confirm findings and to prove or disprove a hypothesis.

3. The Scientific Revolution
In the 1500s and 1600s the Scientific Revolution changed the way Europeans looked at the world.
People began to make conclusions based on experimentation and observation, instead of merely accepting traditional ideas.

4. Nicolaus Copernicus
Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who studied in Italy.
In his book, Copernicus made two conclusions:
The universe is heliocentric, or sun-centered.
The Earth is merely one of several planets revolving around the sun.

5. Reaction to Copernicus
Most scholars rejected his theory because it went against the Church.

6. Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler, a German astronomer calculated the orbits of the planets revolving around the sun.
Kepler’s finding help explain the paths followed by man-made satellites today.

7. Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer.
Galileo assembled the first telescope which allowed him to see mountains on the moon and fiery spots on the sun.

8. Classwork: 4/18/16
Complete Document Based Questions related to the Scientific Revolution found on the class website.
Please be ready to actively discuss!!! Participation is part of MP 5 grade.

9. 4/19/16
AIM: What impact did pushback by intellectuals against the church have on European society?
Do-Now: How did Copernicus shape the study of astronomy? Why was there resistance to his theory?

10. The Scientific Method Newton Sir Isaac Newton was an English scholar.
Newton was the most influential scientist of the Scientific Revolution.
He used math to prove the existence of gravity - a force that kept planets in their orbits around the sun, and also caused objects to fall towards the earth.

11. The Scientific Method Francis Bacon Francis Bacon was an English.
Bacon popularized the scientific method and used it with philosophy and knowledge.
Bacon argued that truth could not be known at the beginning of a question, but only at the end after a long process of investigation.

12. The Scientific Method René Descartes
Descartes was a French scientist, mathematician, and philosopher.
Descartes emphasized human reasoning as the best road to understanding.
“I think, therefore I am”

13. Classwork: 4/19/16
Complete reading from Descartes about Gailileo and answer three associated questions found on the class website.
Please be ready to actively discuss!!! Participation is part of MP 5 grade.