1. Unit: Science & Technology
Lesson #2: Thinking Like a Scientist
Essential Questions:
What attitudes help you think `
scientifically?
What is scientific reasoning?

2. What Attitudes Help You As A Scientist?

3. Eagerness to learn

4. What might a scientist be curious to know about this frog?

5. Inventive ways to solve problems
Eagerness to learn

6. 1.) Accept new ideas
2.) Attitude of doubt
Inventive ways to solve problems
Eagerness to learn

7. Open-mindedness
Skepticism

8. 1.) Accept new ideas
2.) Attitude of doubt
Inventive ways to solve problems
Eagerness to learn
Being truthful

9. 1.) Accept new ideas
2.) Attitude of doubt
Inventive ways to solve problems
Eagerness to learn
Being truthful
Sense of right and wrong

10. Why is it important for scientists to test medicine before it is sold?

11. 1.) Accept new ideas
2.) Attitude of doubt
Likes or culture affecting interpretations
Inventive ways to solve problems
Eagerness to learn
Being truthful
Sense of right and wrong

12. Types of bias
1.) Personal- comes from a person’s
likes or dislikes

13. 2.) Cultural- stems from one’s culture
3.) Experimental- a mistake in the experiment
that makes a result more likely

14. Scientists can be…
1.) Objective- making decisions based on evidence
2.) Subjective- personal
feelings affect a decision