May 12, 2015
Tuesday 60 min
12:30 - 01:30
The Scientific Process
Oliver showed me his Nintendo device that has a built-in camera. He showed me how it takes photo that can be saved to a digital card. We then started a science folder. Oliver was tasked to write the scientific procedure (questions, hypothesis, materials, methods, data collection, calculations, conclusions and discussion. We conducted a simple experiment to utilize the scientific process. Oliver guessed (hypothesized) that a dropped pencil would land facing west, three out of ten times. We conducted one trial of ten drops and examined our data. We discussed how having more than one trial would increase our accuracy, so we conducted two more trials of ten. Oliver collected the data, we calculated the average number of times the dropped pencil faced west, and he wrote his conclusions in his science notebook.