What is Science?

What is Science?

Open Ended

What do you think of when you hear the word "science?"

Poll

Science is...

• everywhere!

• nowhere.

Multiple Select

Which of the following are your senses? Mark all that apply.

• Seeing

• Hearing

• Smelling

• Touching

• Tasting

Multiple Choice

Using the skill of inference, what might Garfield have done?

• Waved at the fish.

• Eaten the fish.

• Pet the fish.

Open Ended

Take a look out of the nearest window. What might you predict the weather to be in 30 minutes? How did you come up with this guess?

Open Ended

Name one other characteristic you consider being important to the scientific attitude? Why is it important?

Poll

Does science always occur in a specific order, or is there no set path?

• specific order

• no set path

Multiple Choice

Say you were conducting a controlled experiment to see how much 2 plants will grow in a month. You have one plant that you water once a day, and another that you water once a week. What is the manipulated variable? What is the responding variable?

• how often you water; how much the plant grows

• how much the plant grows; how often you water

Open Ended

Why is it important to conduct CONTROLLED experiments?

Open Ended

Why is honesty important to data collection?

Multiple Choice

True or false: A scientific law provides an explanation?

• True

• False

Poll

How prepared do you feel to learn more about science after today?

• Very prepared

• Somewhat prepared

• Not prepared