1. Monday, September 15 Pick up a computer and/or other materials you need to finish your project. You need to work with your team today to finish as much as possible. Today and tomorrow are your last days to finish your project. If finished, make sure your video is posted on the class Youtube channel. Work on the news activities, if finished early.

2. Monday, September 15 1. Pick up your scale tracking form. 2. Copy homework into planner. 3. Open to your Nature of Science scale in your composition book. Highlight everything you confidently understand that you would get right on a test. 4. On your tracking form, SHADE and DATE where you are today (like the sample on the board ). 5. On the lines below the graph, answer the following in sentences: Which terms or concepts do I understand the most? Which do I understand the least? What is my plan of action? 6. Turn your tracking form into the folder and pick up textbook when done. Open to Ch 2 Lesson 1 and start reading.

5. Mass, Volume and Density

8. Parts of an Experiment: Independent (Test) Variable Dependent (Outcome/Responding) Variable Constants Control/Control Group

10. The Control (or Control Group or Control Test)

14. Control – An experiment test that compares the results of the experiment Controlled Experiment – Only one variable is changed or tested in the experiment. All other variables are kept constant.

15. Observation – Senses – I feel, it smells like – descriptive – qualitative or quantitative or both Inference – Using observations and background information to make a guess Prediction – Same as inference, but for the future Hypothesis – If, then (and NO pronouns – needs to be replicable – an attempted answer to a problem question that can be tested by an experiment) Analysis – Studying or Examining Closely – Using the information to make informed decisions

16. Individual Classwork 1.For the following terms in Ch 2 Lessons 1 and 2, synthesize the contextual definition of each term in your composition notebook: a) datab) empirical evidence c)objective reasoning d) subjective reasoning e)pseudoscience f) inferring g) model 2.Read, highlight important info and answer the questions on the following pages: p. 53-59 (not the blue “got it” questions) p. 61-67 (not the blue “got it” questions)