Aim #5: How do scientists solve problems? Date: September 13, 2016 Aim #5: How do scientists solve problems? HW: Complete practice questions pages 4&5 Do Now: Every year in science you review the scientific method. Try to: Recall the steps of the scientific method Explain its importance in science

Who was Louis Pasteur? Scientist who discovered the Germ Theory of Disease

What is the Germ Theory? 1 Germ 1 Disease

Louis Pasteur was a famous French scientist in the late 19th Century Louis Pasteur was a famous French scientist in the late 19th Century. He helped prove that most infectious diseases are caused by microorganisms. This was known as the Germ Theory of Disease. He is particularly renowned for his discovery of a process named after him. This process is called pasteurization and is still used today. Pasteurization is a heating process that kills germs that normally spoil milk and wine. Milk and wine are heated to a specific temperature for a specified period of time. This process kills these germs.

What was the hypothesis? Explain his experiment. Pasteur conducted experiments where he compared the shelf-life of wine that wasn’t heated to wine that was heated. The table below illustrates the results. What was the problem? What was the hypothesis? Explain his experiment. What were the results of his experiment? What conclusion can be made?

SCIENTIFIC METHOD STEPS: Problem Observation Research Hypothesis Experiment Results/Data Conclusion

PROBLEM What does the word, problem, mean? Something that needs to be solved!

OBSERVATION How can we observe our surroundings? Through our 5 senses: sight, smell, taste, touch, and hear

RESEARCH What is research? The gathering of information related to your problem. How could we gather this research?

HYPOTHESIS What does this mean? Definition: An educated guess based upon your observations

Examples of Hypotheses: If this chemical is applied to plant leaves, then the plant will grow faster. Chemical + If this chemical is safe, then it will not harm us when it is added to our drinking water.

EXPERIMENT What is an experiment? Definition: A procedure to test the hypothesis

RESULTS What are results (Data)? Written records of observations

CONCLUSION What is a conclusion? Explanation of the results (i.e. Why did you get those results? Does it support or reject your hypothesis?)

The Strange Case of BeriBeri In 1887 a strange nerve disease attacked the people in the Dutch East Indies. The disease was beriberi. Symptoms of the disease included weakness and loss of appetite, victims often died of heart failure. Scientists thought the disease might be caused by bacteria. They injected chickens with bacteria from the blood of patients with beriberi. The injected chickens became sick. However, so did a group of chickens that were not injected with bacteria. One of the scientists, Dr. Eijkman, noticed something. Before the experiment, all the chickens had eaten whole-grain rice, but during the experiment, the chickens were fed polished rice. Dr. Eijkman researched this interesting case and found that polished rice lacked thiamine, a vitamin necessary for good health.

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