1. Daily Routine Sit in your appropriate seat quietly
Make sure you are wearing your ID’s
Have all necessary materials out
All back packs on the floor
All cell phones on silent and away in backpacks
All IPods off and headphones out of your ears
Hats off
No food or drink except for water

2. Take out signed syllabus and safety contract and pass them down to the left
Homework: get syllabus and safety contract signed and turned in by Friday

3. Assumptions and Mapping the Classroom

4. Assumption Activity
When you get the worksheet, quietly observe your table partner
Without talking, write down your assumptions about your partner for each question
Observe your teacher and write down your assumption
At the end, share your answers about your partner
After sharing your answers, every student will share one assumption about the teacher

5. What is an assumption? a self-evident truth that requires no proof.
 Compare axiom a statement that is used as the premise of a particular argument but may not be otherwise accepted
a self-evident truth that requires no proof.

6. Why are assumptions dangerous in science?
Let’s go back to the axiom
a self-evident truth that requires no proof.
Do we need proof in science?
Of course we do!
In order to have all these theories, laws, and dogmas in science, something had to happen so that we didn’t assume how different natural phenomena operated around us

7. So the field of science had to create a method of portraying observations….

8. So that’s why we have the scientific method (and lab safety)!!!

9. What safety equipment is in the classroom?

10. Exit Slip
Using your bellwork lined paper, answer the following questions:
In a sentence or two, describe what you think the scientific method is.
What are the different steps of the scientific method?