WHERE TO SIT TODAY…

•SIT in ALPHABETICAL order starting at Table 1…. BY FIRST NAME

Review what’s in your folder

Getting Started #2 (8-7)

• How can a data table “tell a story”? What can you conclude from the data table below?

Review types of Inquiry

Intro Unit

•Scientific Processing

Steps to Scientific Method

• Step One: State problem • Must be in the form of a

QUESTION

Step 2

• Collect information about topic

Step 3: Form Hypothesis

• If … then statement

• Must be testable• NO PERSONAL

PRONOUNS… EVER!!

Step 4: Design experiment

• Tests hypothesis• Must have control

group-not tested on• Independent

variable- what is being tested

• Dependent variable- responding, what is happening, data is recorded

Step 5: Record & analyze data

• Record information from experiment

Step 6: Form Conclusion

• Analyze data & determine if hypothesis was supported or not

• If well supported over time- then referred to as “theory”

Time for the Class Challenge• There may be ONLY TWO GROUPS in the lab area

, however only one lab report may be turned in for the class.

• Everyone in class will receive the same grade for the challenge, so it is important that you work cooperatively

• The class will be assessed on accuracy and on the effort made as a community in the process of solving the challenge.

• It is assumed that everyone in the room could do this challenge on his/her own once you’ve finished it as a class

Materials• You may use your notebooks, your lab

papers, textbooks• You will have access to the following-

water, styrofoam cups, stirrers, ice, hot plate, thermometers, timers

• You may use the desktop computers on Table 4 to type up your lab report and print it.

Class Challenge #1• A toy company has hired your team as

quality control agents to ensure that their sponge animals fully emerge from their capsules in EXACTLY FIVE MINUTES.

• You only have two chances (TWO LAB GROUPS) to make this work… so think before acting.

• Your lab report must be completed and in my hands by according to my clock or I will not grade it.

Quick Quiz

Identify the independent and dependent variable from the hypothesis below.

“If one apple is eaten every day, then visits to a doctor will decrease.”