Antibiotics

Evaluating evidence about antibiotics

Today you will evaluate evidence about the effects of antibiotics on the microorganisms that make up the human microbiome in order to construct explanations that support or refute a claim for how antibiotics cure infection in the body.

Multiple Select

What are the three things that must be included in a successful scientific argument?

• Claim

• Opinions

• Reasoning

• Numbers

• Evidence

Multiple Choice

Which is a proposed answer to a question about the natural world?

• Reasoning

• Evidence

• Claim

Multiple Choice

Which is information about the natural world that is used to support a claim?

• Reasoning

• Evidence

• Claim

Multiple Choice

Which is the process of making clear how your evidence supports your claim?

• Reasoning

• Evidence

• Claim

Multiple Select

Why was argument two a bad scientific argument?

• It didn't have a claim

• It didn't have evidence

• It didn't have reasoning

Multiple Choice

Is this a good or a bad claim to answer our question?

• Good

• Bad

Multiple Choice

Why is it a good claim?

• It proposes an answer to the question

• It explains why the evidence is important.

• It has lots of big words

Poll

Does this piece of evidence answer our question: How do antibiotics affect the microbiome?

• Yes

• No

Poll

Does this piece of evidence answer our question: How do antibiotics affect the microbiome?

• Yes

• No

Poll

Does this piece of evidence answer our question: How do antibiotics affect the microbiome?

• Yes

• No

Poll

Does this piece of evidence answer our question: How do antibiotics affect the microbiome?

• Yes

• No

Poll

Does this piece of evidence answer our question: How do antibiotics affect the microbiome?

• Yes

• No

Poll

Do you think the evidence you just examined supports this claim?

(Claim: Antibiotics cure infection by killing all types of bacteria in the body, including the harmful bacteria that cause the infection)

• Yes

• No

Open Ended

What is one thing that you learned today?