FOCUS

What 2 lab safety rules do you think are the most important and why?

Pick up from the table: Making Slime Lab Scientific Method Guided Notes

Take out your homework and leave it on your desk!

AGENDA

1) Review focus2) Go over lab safety worksheet3) Making Slime4) Scientific Method notes5) Exit ticket

MAKING SLIME

In your lab groups, it will be your job to create slime

I am specifically not telling you how to make it and as a group, you must figure it out.

You will have a TOTAL of 40 minutes to complete the entire activity.

You MUST have one person recording how you make it as you make it. Everyone afterwards will have to copy it onto their paper

MAKING SLIME CON’D.

When you are finished, you must clean up your area so it looks as it did before we started

ANSWER question #1 before you begin working on the lab, INDEPENDENTLY

THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

How do we think like a scientist?

WE WILL BE ABLE TO:

understand why we use the scientific method

apply the scientific method to an experiment

demonstrate proper lab safety procedures

Standard Students will identify and investigate

problems scientifically.

SCIENTIFIC METHOD Inquiry

The search for information and explanation of that information

The process of inquiry and investigation that researchers use to gain knowledge is the scientific method.

We use scientific method to help us understand the world around us better.

Science The word Science is derived from Latin and means “to know”

SCIENTIFIC METHOD

1. Suggest reasonable hypotheses for identified problems.

2. Develop procedures for solving scientific problems.

3. Collect, organize and record appropriate data. 4. Graphically compare and analyze data points

and/or summary statistics. 5. Develop reasonable conclusions based on data

collected. 6. Evaluate whether conclusions are reasonable by

reviewing the process and checking against other available information.

STEP 1: SUGGEST REASONABLE HYPOTHESES FOR IDENTIFIED PROBLEMS.

First, identify the problem Ask yourself: What am I trying to figure out? Example: You and your friend can make the same number of

jump-shots in two minutes. Will your jump-shot get better if you practice?

Hypothesis= educated guess A possible explanation of observations A suggested solution to a problem A possible answer to a problem If….then….. Example: I hypothesize (or guess) that if you practice more, then

your jump-shot will get better.

**Goal of any experiment is to prove or disprove your hypothesis.**

STEP 2: DEVELOP PROCEDURES FOR SOLVING SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMS.

Procedures= StepsHow can I figure out how to find

an answer to my question? Important Points for Procedure

ConditionsVariables

CONDITIONS

Experimental The condition where we change what we are

testing for Example: If I am testing to see if my jump-shot

will get better with practice, then my experimental condition will be practicing my jump-shot.

ControlThe condition that will not change what we are

testing forExample: If I am testing to see if your jump-shot

will get better with practice, then my control condition will be not practicing.

!!IMPORTANT!!!

The only way you will be able to tell if your hypothesis is correct is if you see a difference between the experimental condition and the control condition Example: Is there a difference between the

shooter that practices and the one that doesn’t?

QUICK CHECK

Which is the test condition and which is the control condition?

A drug company wants to see if their pill makes people lose weight. One group gets their weight-loss pill and the other group gets a sugar pill, or a placebo. Which group is the test group? Which group is the control group?

VARIABLESThe things that can change in an

experiment.EVERYTHING ELSE MUST BE THE

SAME!

INDEPENDENT VARIABLE

The variable that you manipulate, or change

Also called the manipulated variableWhat are you changing to get a

result?Most common: Time, TemperatureOur example: Practice

DEPENDENT VARIABLE

Responses or answers you get from the experiment because they DEPEND on what happens in the experiment

What will you be measuring at the end of the experiment?

The OUTCOMEOur example: The number of jump-

shots made

QUICK CHECK

Which is the DEPENDENT variable and which is the INDEPENDENT variable?

Hypothesis: At warmer temperatures, mold will grow faster on bread

What things are changing? Which one are we manipulating? Which one depends on what happens during

the experiment?

STEP 3: COLLECT, ORGANIZE AND RECORD APPROPRIATE DATA.

HOW am I going to collect my data? What units am I going to use? Example: Will your jump-shot get better if

you practice?How do we measure “better”?

More jump-shots! A better shooter will make more jump-shots.

Units= Number of jump-shots made (not how many you try to make)

How do I physically collect data?Observations

OBSERVATIONS

Using one or more of the senses to gather information

Two typesQuantitative

NUMBERSExample: How many jump-shots you see the shooter make

QualitativeDescriptions (cannot be easily measured or counted)

Example: See if the baskets “swish” in or bounce against the backboard

OBSERVATION VS. INFERENCE

Observation Something you gather with one or more of your

senses Example: John makes 90% of his jump-shots.

Inference A conclusion you make based on observations Example: John must just be naturally good at

basketball This is NOT an observation!

STEP 4: GRAPHICALLY COMPARE AND ANALYZE DATA POINTS AND/OR SUMMARY STATISTICS.

Condition Average Number of Jump-Shots

Practice 15

No Practice 5

STEP 4: GRAPHICALLY COMPARE AND ANALYZE DATA POINTS AND/OR SUMMARY STATISTICS.

This means create a visual representation of your data so that the results are easy to see.

Practice No Practice02468

10121416

Average Number of Jump-Shots

Average Number of Jump-Shots

STEP 5: DEVELOP REASONABLE CONCLUSIONS BASED ON DATA COLLECTED.

Remember: The groups started out making the same number of jump-shots. One group practiced and the other didn’t.

STEP 6: . EVALUATE WHETHER CONCLUSIONS ARE REASONABLE BY REVIEWING THE PROCESS AND CHECKING AGAINST OTHER AVAILABLE INFORMATION.

Evaluate! Evaluate! Evaluate! We will practice evaluating other

experiments so that we know how to evaluate our own work.

The experiment has to be carefully constructed so that other scientists can replicate it to test its validity and reliability

EXIT TICKET

Please take out a separate sheet of paper.

Place the correct heading at the top as per South Atlanta HMS rules

Number 1-5

1) WHAT IS A HYPOTHESIS?

A.) the longest side of a traingle

B.) a guess based on chance

C.) an educated guess

D.) the problem

2) WHICH GROUP IS THE TEST GROUP?

A.) the group that took the weight loss pill

B.) the group that took the sugar pill

C.) both groups are test groups

D.) neither group is a test group

3) WHICH GROUP IS THE CONTROL GROUP?

A.) the group that took the weight loss pill

B.) the group that took the placebo (sugar pill)

C.) both groups are control groups

D.) neither group is a control group

4) AT WARMER TEMPERATURES, MOLD WILL GROW FASTER ON BREAD. WHAT IS THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLE?

A.) temperature

B.) growth of mold

C.) the bread

5) AT WARMER TEMPERATURES, MOLD WILL GROW FASTER ON BREAD. WHAT IS THE DEPENDENT VARIABLE?

A.) the temperature

B.) the mold

C.) the bread