1. What is Your Horoscope?
How many know your sign? How many of you read your horoscopes? This all comes from an area of study called astrology. Astrology is the ancient practice of charting the positions and movements of planets and other celestial bodies to determine events in a person’s life.

2. 12 Stations
Spend 1 minute at each station. Decide which horoscope applies to you the most.
Choose your horoscope

3. Aquarius January 20-February 1811

4. Aries March 21-April 19 1

5. Cancer June 22-July 22 4

6. Sagittarius November 22-December 219

7. Gemini May 21-June 21 3

8. Virgo August 23-September 226

9. Pisces February 19-March 2012

10. Libra September 23-October 237

11. Leo July 23-August 22 5

12. Taurus April 20-May 20 2

13. Scorpio October 24-November 218

14. Capricorn December 22-January 1910

15. Why was it so hard to find your sign?
Pseudoscience – fake science, claims to be science but has no back up

16. Examples of Pseudoscience:
Full Moon Lunacy

17. What is Science?
An organized way of using evidence to learn about the world
The natural world or the observable things around us. Science has limits. It cannot explain the supernatural or what the purpose of life is.

18. Rules of Science Testable Predictable Reproducible
Otherwise it is just opinions!

19. Branches of Science Physics – studies matter, motion, energy and force
Chemistry – studies how matter is put together
Earth Science – applying physics and chemistry to Earth and its processes
Astronomy – applying physics, chemistry, and geology to other planets and stars
Biology – study of living matter

20. Integrated Science
Overlapping branches of science

21. Example: Photosynthesis
Physics = radiant energy
Chemistry = bonds in molecules
Earth Science = gases in the atmosphere
Astronomy = properties of the Sun
Biology = nature of life

22. Assignment!
1 page paper – Why Study Science?