2. What is science and what isn’t science?  Boiling an egg  Predicting the weather  Mapping a mountain  Drilling for oil  Choosing a new camera  Eating a salad  Watering a potted plant

3. The Sciences  Biology  Chemistry  Physics  Environmental Systems (?)  Design Tech (?)  Geology (?)  Computer Science (?)  Psychology (?)  Geography (?)  Mathematics (?)  History (?)

4. A body of knowledge? Or… a way of thinking?

5. Does it matter?  Science works, doesn’t it?

6. Karl Popper turns science upside down  Here is my hypothesis……  Try to shoot it down! Popper “A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is nonscientific” “Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it”

7. Thomas Kuhn’s scientific revolutions  Science progresses by leaps, when crisis point is reached in the current paradigm –paradigms are “universally recognized scientific achievements that for a time provide model problems and solutions to a community of practitioners.”

8. Is IB science real science? What are the skills you are expected to show?  Planning (a) Focusing the test  Planning (b) Methodology  Data Collection  Data Processing and Presentation  Conclusion and Evaluation  Manipulative skills  Personal skills (a) Teamwork  Personal skills (b) Motivation and ethics

9. Words to describe science Logical Predictive Progressive Cultural Creative Beautiful

10. These are all elements associated with the Scientific Method. Try and put them in a sequential order and write a description of how a scientist works: 1.Experiment 2.Hypothesis 3.Measurement 4.Repeatability 5.Induction 6.Law 7.Observation 8.Theory