Chapter 5 - Scientific Methods
5.1 Discrepant Events – Establishing a “Need to Know”
- Activity 5.1.1 – A Reversible, Spontaneous Color Change - Teacher Demonstration
- Activity 5.1.2 – The Collapsing Can - Teacher Demonstration
- Activity 5.1.3 – Retinal fatigue - What you perceive is not always real!
5.2 Developing Scientifically Oriented Questions
5.3 Observation vs. Inference
5.4 Brainstorming and Hypothesizing
- Activity 5.4.1 Lost on the Moon - brainstorming & consensus building
- Activity 5.4.2 – The mysterious bottle - generating a hypothesis
5.5 Experimental Design
5.6 Independent Variables
- Activity 5.6.1 – Isolating variables in a complex chemical reaction
5.7 Writing Clear Procedures
- Activity 5.7.1 – Assembling a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
- Activity 5.7.2 – Writing unambiguous procedures
5.8 Using History to Teach Scientific Methods
- Activity 5.8.1 – Tracking Down the Cause of Beriberi Disease
- Activity 5.8.2 – The scientific method seen in other discoveries
5.9 Indirect Evidence – “Black Box” experiments
- Activity 5.9.1 – Determining the contents of a "black-box"
- Activity 5.9.2 – Determining the structure of the atom with indirect evidence
5.10 Evaluating Hypotheses