Our class is up to 6 people right now - we're slowly growing.
For some of you the first day was sometime last week. If you were here that day we did a brief introductory essay to get us started listing in it name, previous school, interests/hobbies, science background, expectations for both the school year and the class, and your short term and long term goals. For those of you who started in our class today, you were given the opportunity to do this assignment today as well if you finished your classwork early. If you did not finish your classwork in time you can still write up the introductory essay so that I can add it into the grade book sometime this week.
Today, we went over the scientific method and played out two hypothetical experiments to better identify the steps in the process and also to remind ourselves of key vocabulary terms used when performing scientific experiments. Two worksheets involving SpongeBob and his friends performing scientific experiments were assigned as classwork.
The homework assigned for the day was to design an experiment to test an advertiser's claims about a commercial product. This can be any product you like. Just make sure the experiment is valid!
The vocabulary for this section is as follows:accuracy, constant, control, dependent variable, hypothesis, independent variable, law, model, observation, peer review, precision, reliability, scientific notation, Le Systeme International D'Unites, theory, validity, variables
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