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Exploring Scientific Inquiry: Formulating Questions and Hypotheses

In this engaging lesson, students learn the essential steps in scientific inquiry: asking questions, formulating hypotheses, and testing them through experimentation. We begin with a review of graphs, followed by a mini-lesson focused on the importance of specific, educated experimental questions. Students will practice creating testable hypotheses from observations and collaborate in groups to develop experimental procedures. By the end of the session, students will be equipped to understand how scientists generate and test ideas, enhancing their scientific thinking skills.

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Exploring Scientific Inquiry: Formulating Questions and Hypotheses

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  1. L R Promethean Board

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  4. BEING A SCIENTIST!January (33-8), 2010 • What question was the scientist who made this graph originally asking?

  5. Today’s Agenda • Catalyst • Review Graphs • Quiz #1 TOMORROW! • Mini-Lesson: Questions and Hypotheses • Exit Question

  6. Today’s Objectives • SWBAT formulate hypotheses from questions. • SWBAT formulate questions from observations.

  7. DESK PROCEDURE!!!!

  8. How do scientists come up with ideas for an experiment? • Do ideas just pop into their head randomly? • Yes…Sometimes. • Do people just hand them ideas to test? • Yea, occasionally • Do scientists have a method for coming up with experiment ideas? • YES!!!!!

  9. What Scientists Do! • Scientists observe the world around them • They ask questions • They make hypotheses • They test them!

  10. Good Experimental Questions Key Point #1: A good experimental question asks why something happens. Must be specific Based on things you see about the world

  11. PLANET EARTH! Ask 3 questions about what you see while you watch!

  12. Good Hypotheses Key Point #2: A good hypothesis is an educated, testable guess that answers a question. Educated means there is a reason for it Use the word “because” Testable means there is a way to prove it right or wrong

  13. Your Turn! • Make hypotheses for all of your questions

  14. What’s the point? • Scientists want to prove the hypotheses right or wrong • In your groups, choose 2 of the best question/hypotheses and develop a procedure for testing them

  15. Exit Question • You observe that students in Ms. Jhaveri’s class get higher grades on their tests than the students in Mr. McKnight’s class. Write a question and testable hypothesis to explain this phenomenon.

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