1. Understanding Science And how to teach it http://undsci.berkeley.edu/index.php

2. What is Science? Discuss this in small groups (3-4 people) to answer the question. Write your answer on the board –You have 4 minutes. http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/images06/ChalkBoard01.JPG

3. Science is both a body of knowledge and a process. Can seem like a collection of isolated and static facts listed in a textbook Is a process of discovery that allows us to link isolated facts into coherent and comprehensive understandings of the natural world http://kbagdanov.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/scientificmethod.jpg

4. Interactive http://undsci.berkeley.edu/index.php

5. Science is exciting. Way of discovering what's in the universe and how those things – work today –worked in the past –likely to work in the future Scientists are motivated by the thrill of seeing or figuring out something that no one has before http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/article/0_0_0/whatisscience_01

6. Science is useful. The knowledge generated by science is powerful and reliable It can be used to develop new technologies, treat diseases, and deal with many other sorts of problems http://z.about.com/d/history1900s/1/0/s/C/1/apollo40.jpg

7. Science is ongoing. Science is continually refining and expanding our knowledge of the universe, and as it does, it leads to new questions for future investigation Science will never be "finished" http://woodside.blogs.com/cosmologycuriosity/images/2008/03/09/einstein_newton_gravity_2.jpg Gravity

8. Science is a global human endeavor. People all over the world participate in the process of science You can too! BJ Shaw (2006) Hosford Middle School

9. http://undsci.berkeley.edu/lessons/pdfs/tips.pdf

10. http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/whatisscience_03

11. Discrepant Events View A Private UniverseView View Minds of Our OwnView –Can We Believe Our Eyes? –Lessons From Thin Air http://www.learner.org/resources/series28.html

12. Questions? BJ Shaw (2008) Panchthus actualmente at Museo de la Plata, Argentina