BrainPOP: Science and the Scientific Process

What is science?

• A collection of facts

• A never-ending cycle of questioning, discovering, analyzing, and sharing

• A way of knowing based on personal experiences

• A set of ghost stories and myths

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What are natural phenomena?

• Things that happen in nature

• Ghost stories and myths

• Inner workings of our bodies

• Formation of planets in outer space

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Who can use science to figure things out?

• Only professional scientists

• Only people with a scientific background

• All kinds of people

• Only those with access to a lab

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How can you test ideas in science?

• By conducting experiments in a lab

• By observing natural phenomena

• By asking authorities for answers

• By adjusting variables and observing the results

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What is evidence in science?

• Information that supports an idea

• Personal opinions and beliefs

• Data that is difficult to understand

• Experiments that always produce the same result

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Why is sharing findings with the scientific community important?

• To gain recognition and fame

• To prove that you are right

• To progress science and build upon existing research

• To keep the knowledge exclusive to a select few

What are scientific values?

• Being easily convinced and accepting all ideas

• Being skeptical and closed-minded

• Being open to new ideas and skeptical at the same time

• Ignoring evidence that contradicts your beliefs

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Why is including people with a large range of backgrounds important in science?

• To make the research more complicated

• To create conflicts and disagreements

• To strengthen the results and gain different perspectives

• To exclude certain groups of people

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What is the molecule that holds the instructions for building living things?

• DNA

• RNA

• Protein

• Carbohydrate

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What did the Human Genome Project discover about the number of instructions in human DNA?

• Human DNA has more instructions than any other organism

• Human DNA has fewer instructions than any other organism

• Human DNA has the same number of instructions as a tiny worm

• Human DNA has no instructions