Introduction to ScienceSection 1 SCSh8 Students will understand important features of the process of scientific inquiry.
Introduction to ScienceSection 1 EQ: What are the important features of the process of scientific inquiry?
Introduction to ScienceSection 1 How Science Takes Place How do scientists explore the world?
Introduction to ScienceSection How Science Takes Place A scientist may perform experiments to find a new aspect of the natural world, to explain a known phenomenon, to check the results of other experiments, or to test the predictions of current theories.
Introduction to ScienceSection How Science Take Place, continued Scientists investigate.
Introduction to ScienceSection How Science Take Place, continued Scientists plan experiments.
Introduction to ScienceSection How Science Take Place, continued Scientists observe.
Introduction to ScienceSection How Science Take Place, continued Scientists always test the results.
Introduction to ScienceSection 1 The Branches of Science How are the many types of science organized?
Introduction to ScienceSection The Branches of Science Natural science is divided into biological science, physical science and Earth science.
Introduction to ScienceSection The Branches of Science science: the knowledge obtained by observing natural events and conditions in order to discover facts and formulate laws or principles that can be verified or tested
Introduction to ScienceSection The Branches of Science, continued biological science: the science of living things botany, ecology
Introduction to ScienceSection The Branches of Science, continued physical science: the science of matter and energy chemistry: the science of matter and its changes physics: the science of forces and energy
Introduction to ScienceSection The Branches of Science, continued earth science: the science of the Earth, the atmosphere, and weather geology, meteorology
Introduction to ScienceSection The Branches of Science, continued pure science: the continuing search for scientific knowledge
Introduction to ScienceSection The Branches of Science, continued technology: the application of science for practical purposes
Introduction to ScienceSection 1 Scientific Laws and Theories What are scientific theories, and how are they different from scientific laws?
Introduction to ScienceSection Scientific Laws and Theories Theories explain why something happens, laws explain how something works.
Introduction to ScienceSection Scientific Laws and Theories law: a descriptive statement or equation that reliably predicts events under certain conditions
Introduction to ScienceSection Scientific Laws and Theories theory: a system of ideas that explains many related observations and is supported by a large body of evidence acquired through scientific investigation
Introduction to ScienceSection Scientific Laws and Theories, continued Experimental results support laws and theories.
Introduction to ScienceSection Scientific Laws and Theories, continued Scientific theories are always being questioned and examined.
Introduction to ScienceSection Scientific Laws and Theories, continued To be valid, a theory must: explain observations be repeatable be predictable
Introduction to ScienceSection Scientific Laws and Theories, continued qualitative statement: describes something with words
Introduction to ScienceSection Scientific Laws and Theories, continued quantitative statement: describes something with mathematical equations or numbers
Introduction to ScienceSection Scientific Laws and Theories, continued Theories and laws are always being tested..
Introduction to ScienceSection Scientific Laws and Theories, continued model: a representation of an object or event that can be studied to understand the real object or event
Introduction to ScienceSection Scientific Laws and Theories, continued Scientists use conceptual, physical, and computer models to study objects and events.