Welcome to Living Environment!

1. Welcome to Living Environment! Sit where you would like. Perhaps it's not always best to sit next to your friends. We will change seats about every 5 weeks. I reserve the right to change seats whenever I need to.

2. Welcome to Living Environment! Please take out your agendas and pick up an exit ticket sheet. Agenda: 1. Introductions - Shake Hands 2. Procedures 3. Determining Rules 4. Good Teacher/Good Student 5. Getting to Know You 6. Exit Tickets Objective: set the tone of the class for the year HW: letter to me due Friday $4 for lab notebook take text book home and leave it there I welcome you each day. Instructions on what to do when you enter the room. Daily Agenda Why we're doing what we're doing today Homework

3. Welcome to Living Environment! Please take out your agendas. Agenda: 1. Introductions - Shake Hands 2. Procedures 3. Determining Rules Objective: set the tone of the class for the year HW: letter to me due Friday $4 for lab notebook take text book home and leave it there I welcome you each day. Instructions on what to do when you enter the room. Daily Agenda Why we're doing what we're doing today Homework

4. Shaking Hands: Get up and introduce yourself to 3 people you do not know by saying: "Hi, I'm _________. I may not know you or like you, but I do have to work with you." The other person will respond: "Hi ______, I'm _______. I may not know you or like you, but I do have to work with you."

5. About Mrs. Nash Victor High School Syracuse University University of Rochester Mom to Kaely who will be 2 on 9.11 Wife to Dan (married on 7.7.07 in Vegas!) Teacher Taught at Mercy since Feb '07 Love Mexican food, saw NKOTBSB this summer Love Twilight, Awkward (Beau), Justin Timberlake and Robert Pattinson

7. Procedures: 1. Enter the room and look at the Smart Board 2. Follow the directions on the Smart Board and write any homework in your agenda 3. Be ready to go when the bell rings 4. "Good Morning/Afternoon Ladies"... followed by our inspirational message. 5. Go over agenda, objective(s) and homework 6. Start class :) 7. Exit Tickets Things in the room: you may use anything in the room as long as it is not on the front lab table. Never touch the Smart Board or my laptop unless I tell you to. Birthday Calendar* Lab Notebooks Supplies Lab Stations Plants Supply Table Homework: Always due when class starts! If not, it is late! It always goes in the bin with your class number on it. Absent?: Right now, find a homework/note buddy to be responsible for your work when you are absent. If you know you'll be out, see me first. See me as soon as you get back in school too. Lost papers: I always bring a cart with past handouts. If can't find something, ask me BEFORE class starts

8. Course Info Sheets: Go over important points now. Read these over again tonight with a parent/guardian.

9. Rules for the year: We will work together as a class to establish rules we will follow all year. This is your classroom as much as it is mine. I want to create a safe learning environment where everyone is comfortable enough to make mistakes and have fun learning. If you do not follow the rules, you will be reminded of the rule(s) you are breaking and possibly have consequences.

10. What makes a good teacher? What makes a good student?

11. All About... You! Please fill in the sheet, "All About _____________" by yourself. Don't let others' opinions change your answers.

12. Exit Tickets: These should be complete thoughts so that you can study from them in the future. Yes or No, A, etc will not help you. What is one rule you learned for our classroom today? Stay in seats and hand in Exit Tickets and All About ____________ bin when bell rings.

13. Mysh bzi (Abaza (Russia)) Ladies... Pick up a lab notebook. 1. Questions??? - Wikispace 2. Lab Safety / Lab Contracts 3. Lab: Multiple Intelligences Objective: know your learning styles HW: take book home letter to me due tomorrow $4 due tomorrow lab safety / lab contracts due Monday

14. Mysh bzi (Abaza (Russia)) Ladies... Pick up an exit ticket sheet. 1. Questions??? - wikispace 2. Finish CIS, rules 3. Good Teacher/ Good Student 4. Getting to Know You 5. Exit Tickets Objective: set the tone of the classroom for the year HW: take book home letter to me due tomorrow $4 due tomorrow lab safety / lab contracts due Monday

15. Lab Safety / Lab Contracts: We will go over lab safety more before our first hands-on lab These need to go home, get read and RETURNED to me by MONDAY

16. Lab: Multiple Intelligences Lab notebooks - you will be issued one lab notebook. Please put your name on it. Don't lose it! It stays in the cupboard unless you REALLY need to take it home. You cannot take your notebook home until you pay me $4. We will work on this lab individually and as a class when necessary.

17. Bomé (Abé (Côte d'Ivoire)) Ladies... Turn in your letter to me in the bin. If you have $4, I will take that now too. If you have lab safety sheets and/or lab contracts, put those in the bin too. Pick up a Scientific Inquiry Note Packet. 1. Intro Scientist Cereal Box 2. Finish Multiple Intelligences Lab 3. Scientific Inquiry Objective: know your learning strengths know the definition of inquiry HW: lab safety/lab contracts due Monday Simpson's Science due Wednesday

18. Bomé (Abé (Côte d'Ivoire)) Ladies... Turn in your letter to me in the bin. If you have $4, I will take that now too. If you have lab safety sheets and/or lab contracts, put those in the bin too. Pick up a Scientific Inquiry Note Packet. 1. Intro Scientist Cereal Box 2. Lab safety 3. Scientific Inquiry Objective: know the definition of inquiry HW: lab safety/lab contracts due Monday Simpson's Science due Wednesday

19. I. What is Science? a. Your definition: b. Your partner’s definition: c. Our class definition: A body of knowledge and a way of doing things; we learn about how the world works through intellectual and social activities.

20. II. What is biology? (Why is this class called Living Environment?) a. Study of living things b. Living Environment focuses more on the Living part of biology (ecology, cells, genetics, evolution) than on other things such as biochemistry and all of the human body systems in detail

21. III. What is scientific inquiry? a. Your definition: b. Your partner’s definition: c. Our class definition: Asking a question about the world and finding out an answer or explanation

22. IV. What is the purpose of scientific inquiry? a. To develop explanations of natural phenomena in a continuing and creative process.

23. V. What does scientific inquiry involve? a. Asking questions b. Observing and inferring c. Experimenting d. Collecting and organizing data e. Finding evidence and drawing conclusions f. Repeating the experiment several times g. Peer review

24. Do the steps look like anything else you know? Brain Pop - Scientific Method

25. Exit Ticket: What are the top 3 ways that you learn best?

26. Mshybzia (Abkhaz (Georgia)) Ladies... Turn in your signed lab safety sheets and lab contracts in the bin. If you still owe $4, turn that in now too. Take out your Scientific Inquiry Note Packet. 1. Brain Pop - Scientific Method 2. Scientific Explanations 3. Research/Experimentation Objective: know difference between observation and inference know what makes a source reliable HW: Simpson's Science (p. 6 & 7) due Wednesday Quiz Friday on Scientific Inquiry

27. Also… h. locating, interpreting, and processing information from a variety of sources i. making judgments about the reliability of the source and relevance of information i. What makes a source reliable?

28. VI. Scientific Explanations a. Built by combining evidence that can be observed with what people already know about the world. i. Observation = any information that is collected with any of the senses ii. Inference = conclusion or deduction based on observations 1. Assumptions = belief that something is true 2. Bias = influenced by an assumption that may or may not be correct

29. b. Scientific explanations are acceptedwhen they are consistent with experimental and observational evidence and when they lead to accurate predictions. c. All scientific explanations are tentative and subject to change or improvement. d. Each new bit of evidence can create more questions than it answers. This leads to increasingly better understanding of how things work in the living world.

30. e. History… Learning about the historical development of scientific concepts or about individuals who have contributed to scientific knowledge provides a better understanding of scientific inquiry and the relationship between science and society. i. Who is a scientist that you know about? What is he/she famous for?

31. f. Values… Science provides knowledge, but values are also essential to making effective and ethical decisions about the application of scientific knowledge. i. Ethical = pertaining to right and wrong, good and evil ii. What are some of your values? iii. What are some things you would value when conducting research?

32. VII. Theories a. Well-accepted theories are ones that are supported by different kinds of scientific investigations often involving the contributions of individuals from different disciplines. i. Theory = An explanation, supported by many observations and/or experiments, that can be used to accurately explain related occurrences

33. VIII. Research/Experimentation a. Hypotheses… are predictions based upon both research and observation. i. Usually written as an "If..., then..." statement. ii. "Testable, educated guess." iii. Hypotheses are widely used in science for determining what data to collect and as a guide for interpreting the data. iv. Development of a research plan for testing a hypothesis requires planning to avoid bias (e.g., repeated trials, large sample size, and objective data-collection techniques).

34. Exit Ticket: scientific inquiry What is an inference? (Definition) Give an example of an observation.

35. Saleum (Aceh (Sumatra)) Ladies... Have your Scientific Inquiry note packet open to page 3. 1. Research/Experimentation in notes 2. Results 3. SpongeBob Safety Objective: know how to define and identify independent and dependent variables HW: Simpson's Science due tomorrow (p. 6 & 7) Quiz Friday on Scientific Inquiry

36. Saleum (Aceh (Sumatra)) Ladies... Have your Scientific Inquiry note packet open to page 3. 1. Research/Experimentation in notes 2. Results 3. SpongeBob Safety 4. Lab: Multiple Intelligences Objective: know how to define and identify independent and dependent variables HW: Simpson's Science (p. 6 & 7) due tomorrow Quiz Friday on Scientific Inquiry

37. b. Experimentation… doing the actual experiment to test (support or refute) your hypothesis i. Independent variable = variable I can change 1. You should only have ONE independent variable 2. Examples: amount of sunlight, amount of water, taking medicine ii. Dependent variable = data that you collect, depends on the independent 1. Is recorded in a table and then put into a graph 2. Ex: plant growth

38. iii. Control = established reference point used as a standard of comparison iv. Controlling the experiment = keeping everything else the same in an experiment so that there is only ONE independent variable 1. Ex: v. Collecting/organizing data 1. Make a chart or table or drawing

39. c. Analysis… The observations made while testing proposed explanations, when analyzed using conventional and invented methods, provide new insights into natural phenomena. i. Organizing data 1. Plot data into a graph when necessary (either bar or line)

40. ii. Interpretation of data leads to development of additional hypotheses, the formulation of generalizations, or explanations of natural phenomena. 1. Hypotheses are valuable, even if they turn out not to be true, because they may lead to further investigation. 2. Claims should be questioned if the data are based on samples that are very small, biased, or inadequately controlled or if the conclusions are based on the faulty, incomplete, or misleading use of numbers. 3. Claims should be questioned if fact and opinion are intermingled, if adequate evidence is not cited, or if the conclusions do not follow logically from the evidence given.

41. d. Results… Scientists make the results of their investigations public; they should describe the investigations in ways that enable others to repeat the investigations. i. Draw a conclusion – a decision about the outcome ii. Scientists use peer review to evaluate the results of scientific investigations and the explanations proposed by other scientists. 1. analyze the experimental procedures 2. examine the evidence 3. identify faulty reasoning 4. point out statements that go beyond the evidence 5. suggest alternative explanations for the same observations.

43. Lab: Multiple Intelligences Lab notebooks - you will be issued one lab notebook. Please put your name on it. Don't lose it! You cannot take your notebook home until you pay me $4. We will work on this lab individually and as a class when necessary.

44. Exit Ticket: Scientific Inquiry 9/13/11 Define independent variable. Give an example. Define dependent variable. Give an example.

45. Moreme (Acholi (Uganda, Sudan)) Ladies... Take out your Scientific Inquiry Note Packet and turn to Simpson's Science so I can check it. 1. Go over Simpson's Science 2. Lab Skills a. Measuring Length b. Measuring Volume c. Measuring Temp d. Measuring Mass e. Converting 3. Start Metric Mania Objective: know how to convert units in metric system HW: Finish Metric Mania and Metric System Challenge Quiz Friday on Scientific Inquiry

46. Smithers thinks that a special juice will increase the productivity of workers. He creates two groups of 50 workers each and assigns each group the same task (in this case, they're supposed to staple a set of papers). Group A is given the special juice to drink while they work. Group B is not given the special juice. After an hour, Smithers counts how many stacks of papers each group has made. Group A made 1,587 stacks, Group B made 2,113 stacks. Identify the: 1. Control Group 2. Independent Variable 3. Dependent Variable 4. What should Smithers' conclusion be? 5. How could this experiment be improved?

47. Homer notices that his shower is covered in a strange green slime. His friend Barney tells him that coconut juice will get rid of the green slime. Homer decides to check this out by spraying half of the shower with coconut juice. He sprays the other half of the shower with water. After 3 days of "treatment" there is no change in the appearance of the green slime on either side of the shower. 6. What was the initial observation? Identify the- 7. Control Group 8. Independent Variable 9. Dependent Variable 10. What should Homer's conclusion be?

48. Bart believes that mice exposed to radio waves will become extra strong (maybe he's been reading too much Radioactive Man). He decides to perform this experiment by placing 10 mice near a radio for 5 hours. He compared these 10 mice to another 10 mice that had not been exposed. His test consisted of a heavy block of wood that blocked the mouse food. He found that 8 out of 10 of the radio waved mice were able to push the block away. 7 out of 10 of the other mice were able to do the same. Identify the- 11. Control Group 12. Independent Variable 13. Dependent Variable 14. What should Bart's conclusion be? 15. How could Bart's experiment be improved?

49. Krusty was told that a certain itching powder was the newest best thing on the market; it even claims to cause 50% longer lasting itches. Interested in this product, he buys the itching powder and compares it to his usual product. One test subject (A) is sprinkled with the original itching powder, and another test subject (B) was sprinkled with the Experimental itching powder. Subject A reported having itches for 30 minutes. Subject B reported to have itches for 45 minutes. Identify the- 16. Control Group 17. Independent Variable 18. Dependent Variable 19. Explain whether the data supports or refutes the advertisements claims about its product.

50. Lisa is working on a science project. Her task is to answer the question: "Does Rogooti (which is a commercial hair product) affect the speed of hair growth". Her family is willing to volunteer for the experiment. 20. Describe how Lisa would perform this experiment. Identify the control group, and the independent and dependent variables in your description.