Scientific Revolution

Scientific Revolution

Poll

Do you believe in science?

• Yes

• No

• I question it sometimes

Poll

Is it important to study and be introduced to science in high school?

• Yes

• No

Poll

Which areas of science interest you most? You can pick more than one.

• Physical Science/Physics

• Environmental Science

• Medical Science

• Biology

• Chemistry

The Main Idea

• As a result of the Renaissance and the Reformatiion people started to question the world around them.

• Science developed as the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

• A period of scientific revolution developed from the mid 1500s through the 1700s.

Multiple Select

Which statements best define the word revolution?

• a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system.

• a dramatic and wide-reaching change in the way something works or is organized or in people's ideas about it.

• an instance of revolving.

• a peroid of great stability and little change.

What exactly took place?

• Scientists challenged traditional beliefs about the world

• They emphasized careful observation of the natural world using the Scientific Method

• People became less interested in God and the Church and more centered on learning

Multiple Select

Why would the Catholic Church be resistant to science?

• science undermines the authority of the Church

• the Church sees some scientific practices as sins

• people will be more focused on secular or worldly pursuits

Multiple Choice

The Scientific Method is...

• the way scientists make problems and ask questions.

• the way scientists answer questions and solve problems.

• the way scientists never solve problem.s

Scientists practiced the Scientific Method

• A logical approach for gathering and testing ideas.  

  
  

• Scientists form a hypothesis and then experiment and collect data. 

  
  

• Data is analyzed and a conclusion is reached.

  
  

Nicholas Copernicus

and the Heliocentric Theory

Multiple Choice

The heliocentric theory claimed that

• the earth was the center of the solar system.

• the moon was the center of the solar system.

• the sun was the center of the solar system.

Galileo Galilei

Scientist, Professor, Inventor, Heretic

Multiple Choice

Do you know what Galileo invented?

• the telescope

• the telegram

• the telephone

• the television

Multiple Choice

Galileo was accused by the Catholic Church of being a heretic. What does that mean?

• He supported Church teachings.

• He went against Church teachings publically. Teaching new ideas.

• He disagreed with the Church but never publically.

Johannes Kepler

Ellipitical Orbits

Multiple Choice

What shape is an ellipse?

• round

• triangular

• oval

Sir Isaac Newton

Father of Physics

Multiple Choice

Sir Isaac Newton is famous for...

• discovering gravity.

• discovering the atom.

• creating the period table.

Developments in Medicine took place too...

• blood flows from the heart through the veins and arteries

• dissection of the body allowed further discovery to understand the body

• anatomy and physiology were practiced and studied

• new scientific instruments were created

Could there be more? YES!!

• chemistry developed

• engineering will lead to new machines and industrialization

• and many more fields of science have developed and grown over the centuries

• We are surrounded by science daily!!