08/24/2011

Post date: Aug 16, 2011 1:45:48 PM

• • Go over class syllabus

  • Hand out textbooks (may store at school when you don't have homework or studying to do at home)

  • Set up portfolios

  • Categories game / scientific knowledge notes

    • Observation

      • Readily apparent information (easy to see, measure)

      • Most basic type of scientific knowledge

      • Used to construct understanding of bigger ideas

    • Hypothesis

      • Proposed explanation of how or why something happens

      • Based on what we know

      • Test with a hypothesis

    • Theory

      • Well-tested, well-supported hypothesis

      • Generally accepted by scientific community

      • The most sure we ever are in science about WHY something happens the way it does

    • Law

      • Patter of behavior which is ALWAYS followed

      • Describes WHAT happens repeatedly

      • Theories NEVER become laws because laws explain WHAT happens and theories explain WHY something happens