Today in Social, we went back through the medieval society packet and tried to sort that information using a GIST as our note taking structure. We'll finish that tomorrow, and then look at redoing the assessment.
In science, though, we are starting to pull a bunch of related concepts together. To begin with, we've been talking about microorganisms, and using microscopes to examine microscopic structures. Today, we discussed some of the basic features of life. It turns out that one of the major characteristics that distinguishes organisms is how they are arranged: their structure. Even more critically, their structure largely depends on a feature of all matter in the universe, that it is always moving.
To investigate this, we are each going to design an experiment to see what things can affect how dye
(food coloring) can move on its own when placed in a liquid solution (like water, etc.) Your goal for tomorrow is to write a hypothesis in the if/then/because format, correctly identify your independent variable/cause that you will adjust and your dependent variable/effect that you will measure, and write a set of instructions or a procedure for what you plan to do. This will be due tomorrow. You can come up with ideas in groups of up to three, and you may work on gathering data this week cooperatively, BUT YOU MUST COMPLETE AND SUBMIT YOUR OWN ANALYSIS, CONCLUSION AND POSTER.
The PowerPoint we used today is updated and appended below.
moving_matter_lab.pptx |