1. knows that investigations are conducted to explore new phenomena, to check on previous results, to test how well a theory predicts, and to compare different theories.
2. knows that from time to time, major shifts occur in the scientific view of how the world works, but that more often the changes that take place in the body of scientific knowledge are small modifications of prior knowledge.
3. understands that no matter how well one theory fits observations, a new theory might fit them as well or better, or might fit a wider range of observations, because in science, the testing, revising, and occasional discarding of theories, new and old, never ends and leads to an increasingly better understanding of how things work in the world, but not to absolute truth.
4. knows that scientists in any one research group tend to see things alike and that therefore scientific teams are expected to seek out the possible sources of bias in the design of their investigations and in their data analysis.
5. understands that new ideas in science are limited by the context in which they are conceived, are often rejected by the scientific establishment, sometimes spring from unexpected findings, and usually grow slowly from many contributors.
6. understands that, in the short run, new ideas that do not mesh well with mainstream ideas in science often encounter vigorous criticism and that, in the long run, theories are judged by how they fit with other theories, the range of observations they explain, how well they explain observations, and how effective they are in predicting new findings.
2. Worksheet on "Education and Mickey Mouse"
3. Worksheet on Chemical Safety Underline key medical points.
4. Video Tapes " Laboratory Accident at Jefferson High" Six summary points. "Science Safety" Six summary points. Make summary points on all medically related accidents.
5. Worksheet: Science Equipment Pictures.
6. Worksheet: Science Equipment Crossword and Quiz.
7. Measurement Picture of a Rocket.
8. Reading Log
9. P. 21 Vocabulary Write out definitions from your textbook
10. Metric Prefixes. Write out the names of the 33 abbrieviations given in class.
11. Worksheet: Supplementary Materials