1. The Scientific Revolution
What does the video state about Galileo Galilei?
Scientific Revolution
Thinking about “adolescence”
as an example of new
scientific thinking
Inductive and Deductive Logic

2. Brain Development & Boredom
Important statistics about adolescence?
Handout contains finding … “Researchers have also found that from the fifth through the ninth grades, both boys and girls experience a 50 percent decrease in being ‘very happy’” (Larson, 1989).
Adolescent brains (ages 13 – 23) receive less dopamine and serotonin.

3. The Scientific Revolution
What does the video state about Galileo Galilei?

4. Galileo Galilei
One of many scientists supporting “new way of thinking” about the universe …
Supported Copernicus’s idea of heliocentric universe
First to see
moons & space
objects in detail.

5. Copernicus Tycho Brahe Johannes Kepler Francis Bacon Rene Descartes
First to support “heliocentric view”
Tycho Brahe
For 30 years, carefully observed the skies, accumulating data about heavenly bodies.
Johannes Kepler
Confirmed calculations and concluded planets move in ellipse
Francis Bacon
Emphasized experimentation and observation
Rene Descartes
Focused on “provable knowledge,” and stated, “I think, therefore I am.”

6. “Topic One, Lesson Five” in On-line textbook
*** Inductive vs. Deductive reasoning … Read pages, 100 to 102 and take notes on … - Scientific Method - Exploring human anatomy - The microscope - Robert Boyle and chemistry - Isaac Newton, calculus and gravity
- Both Bacon and Descartes challenged Aristotle’s scientific assumptions, as well as medieval scholars who sought to make the physical world fit with the teachings of the Church.
“Topic One, Lesson Five” in On-line textbook