1. Submit your parent signatures in the ‘Submit’ box (Can you find it?)
Nature of Science
Pick up your journal at the front of the class and get ready for your Daily Assessment!
Submit your parent signatures in the ‘Submit’ box (Can you find it?)
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2. Nature of science Essential Questions
What is science?
How do scientists take into account errors in the investigation?
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3. Which of the lines shown below is longer?

9. “Perception is not reality”
What other examples are there that you can think of?

10. Card Exchange Game Read the statements that you are given.
Turn to the person sitting next to you to discuss whether these statements are true or false. If you wish, you can trade your cards with one another. Keep the cards that you STRONGLY agree or disagree with.
In groups of 3 or 4, discuss again whether the statements are true or false. If you wish, you can trade your cards with one another. Keep the cards that you STRONGLY agree or disagree with.

11. To do
Using the 3 or 4 statements that you believe is TRUE, create a poster. Include a short paragraph explanation for each about WHY you believe that that is true.
Be ready to present this to the class next period.

12. Nature of Science
Pick up your journal at the front of the class and get ready for your Daily Assessment!
Submit your parent signatures in the ‘Submit’ box if you have not already.
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13. What is science?
Share with a partner – which ones are you not sure about?

14. What Science Is
Science is a process by which we try to understand how the natural world works
Science is based on the following assumptions:
The world is real.
Humans can accurately perceive and understand the physical universe.
Nature operates the same way everywhere in the universe.
Scientific knowledge is the inferences that scientists draw from data (induction)

15. Debunking Myths: What Science is NOT
Science is NOT a process that can solve all kinds of problems and questions.
Science is NOT a process that seeks the truths or facts.
Science is NOT a process that attempts to prove things.
Science is NOT a process that produces absolute certainties or absolute facts.
Science is NOT more procedural than creative.
Science is NOT always studied using the scientific method.
Science is NOT a process that is free from values, opinions or biases.

16. Karl Popper
“Science does not sit on solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building erected on piles… we simply stop when we are satisfied that they are firm enough to carry the structure for the time being.”
Scientific knowledge is the most reliable knowledge that we have about the natural world.
Space exploration, modern medicine, agriculture, technology.

17. Nature of science Essential Questions
What is science?
How do scientists take into account errors in the investigation?
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18. Systematic and Random Errors
Systematic error: error in the equipment or experimental design
If the instrument used to take measurement has been calibrated wrongly or if the person using it consistently misreads
Random error: error that has a random distribution and attributed to chance