1. Science and the Scientific Method
Mr. Hussain
9-6-19

2. Warm-Up (Do-Now) (5 minutes)
In your table of contents, enter the following as your next entry: “What is Science?” Warm-Up
(make sure to include the page number this entry can be found)
Flip to the respective page number, title the page, “Warm-Up” and answer the following questions in a few sentences:
What is science? What is science not? What makes something scientific? What makes something unscientific?
(I will be walking around at this time to check your Rube Goldberg Reflections, in sha Allah)

3. Think-Pair-Share (5 minutes)
Discuss the warm-up with the person next to you. Note what you agree upon and what you disagree upon underneath your answer to the warm-up.
Organizational Tip: use a venn diagram

4. Class Discussion!

5. Brain Break!

6. The Essence of Science
In your table of contents, enter the following as your next entry: “The Essence of Science”
(make sure to include the page number this entry can be found)
Flip to the respective page number and title the page, “The Essence of Science”

7. The Essence of Science: Karl Popper’s Falsification
Science is all about ________________, not confirmation
Falsification – the process of proving something to be ________.
A theory or idea shouldn’t be described as scientific unless it could, in principle, be proven ________ using any combination of the five senses.

8. Science as an Epistemology
Epistemology: the study of the nature of knowledge
Science is one way of “knowing”
Other ways of knowing:
Scripture
Hadith
Mathematics
Some ways of “knowing” are “greater” than others

9. Examples of Scientific “Things”

10. Examples of Unscientific Things

11. Science and Religion
In reality, there is NEVER any contradiction between science and religion
When there is a “seeming” contradiction, one of two cases must exist:
Our understanding of science is inaccurate/incomplete/false, OR
Our understanding of religion is inaccurate/incomplete/false.
In either case, we need to be aware of our ignorance (lack of expertise)
…especially with the second case

12. Warm-Up (Do Now)
In your table of contents, enter the following as your next entry: “The Mystery Tube”
(make sure to include the page number this entry can be found)
Flip to the respective page number and title the page, “The Mystery Tube”

13. The Mystery Tube!

14. The Scientific Method “Discovered” by __________________.
Troubled by reliance on fanciful guessing and appeal to authority
The _________________ is much different from the modern-day scientific method.
Common steps of the scientific method:
Observation
Question/Hypothesis
Test/Data Collection
Qualitative Data
Quantitative Data
Data Analysis
Conclusion
…however…

15. The Scientific Method Cont.
…the scientific method does not “exist.
There is no single, universal scientific method
Still, we have a working understanding of what it should generally look like
That said, some experiments are designed “better” than others

16. Qualitative vs. Quantitative Data
Qualitative Data: data which describes “qualities” or characteristics; non-numerical data
Examples:
Quantitative Data: measures of values or counts; numerical data
Examples:

17. The Mystery Tube
Fill in each step of the scientific method based on what occurred during the activity.