9-11-08

Today in class we talked about the importance of teaching science well. We talked about how without scientific knowledge we wholly are dependent on others as "experts." Without this scientific knowledge we are empowered to become participants rather than merely observers.
There are many reasons to teach science and to teach it well. In class we discussed a few main ones that include: with science we can improve life in many different aspects, we will help to provide long lasting foundations to theory’s and problem solving.
In class we went over such terms as Theory, Hypothesis, evidence, facts, and scientific claims. Next we participated in another activity that we looked at data with temperature. We used the technology in the classroom to map out our data in a graph. What we did was we stuck an electronic thermometer in cold and hot water and saw how fast it changed and where it leveled off.