1. Big Question: What is Science?
Discuss:
“Science deals with the natural world.” What does this statement mean?
What do scientists do?
Where does knowledge come from?

2. “Science deals with the natural world.”
Everything starts with nature, and science is nature
Science helps us to understand the world
Things that are not man-made
Unchanged by man
Not the spiritual world
Science changes our view of the world
Science is everything
Science explains the natural world
In science, you use what you get and don’t change it
It makes us understand how things work
Helps us know more about things that we didn’t make (trees, potatoes, weather, etc.)

3. What do scientists do? Do experiments Come up with theories
Disprove the supernatural
Ask a question and try to prove themselves right
Gain more knowledge about the natural world
Develop our understanding of the natural world
Observe, write down opinions for other scientists to use/disprove
Applied science – applicable

4. Where does knowledge come from?
Observations
What people learn over time
Learning – from teachers, classes, life
In a letter to Robert Hooke: If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants. (written by Sir Isaac Newton)
From mistakes