1. Warm-Up: Please locate your seat from yesterday and have a seat. If you have syllabus forms and/or pictures please take them out to be collected. Write the HW in your planner Learning Goal(s): Identify and explain the five skills scientists use to learn more about the world. Agenda: 1.Warm-Up/Review Tonight’s HW 2.LROD/Bell Ringer Introduction – official start date is Monday 3.Complete Latin Root Worksheet as a class 4.Class discussion/notes for “What is Science?” 5.Complete the What is Science Worksheet/Tale Told by Tracks Worksheet (pgs. 5,7) HW: Complete the What is Science Worksheet/Tale Told by Tracks Worksheet (pgs. 5,7) Signed syllabus due on Friday, 8/28 What is Science? Picture due by Friday, 8/28

2. What is science? an introduction to life science

3. Science Science is a way of learning about the natural world 5 skills used to learn about the natural world: 5 skills used to learn about the natural world: Observing Inferring Predicting Classifying Making models

4. OBSERVING using one or more of your senses to gather information Example?

5. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE OBSERVATIONS QUANTITATIVE OBSERVATIONS QUANTITATIVE OBSERVATIONS Dealing with a number or amount Example? QUALITATIVE OBSERVATIONS QUALITATIVE OBSERVATIONS Descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers Example?

6. INFERRING explain or interpret the things you observe Example?

7. PREDICTING future making a forecast of what will happen in the future based on past experiences Example?

8. CLASSIFYING grouping together items that are alike Example?

9. MAKING MODELS creating representations of complex objects or processes Example?