Scientific Method

For a more easy to read credits and standards page, please click on the documents link proviede. I believe that this lesson will take more than one class period, and some home time as well. There is a lot of thinking and research that has to be done in order to complete this assignment. I think that taking time to do this activity will help the students, as there are different level requirements of this same topic that are expected of the children each grade year.

Standards

The WebQuest’s Curriculum Standards

As stated by the Tennessee Dpt. Of Education Standards,

GLE are as listed;

GLE 0607.Inq.1 Design and conduct open-ended scientific investigations.
GLE 0607.Inq.2 Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, organize, analyze, and interpret data.
GLE 0607.Inq.3 Synthesize information to determine cause and effect relationships between evidence and explanations.
GLE 0607.Inq.4 Recognize possible sources of bias and error, alternative explanations, and questions for further exploration.
GLE 0607.Inq.5 Communicate scientific understanding using descriptions, explanations, and models.

CU are as listed;

0607.Inq.1 Design and conduct an open-ended scientific investigation to answer a question that includes a control and appropriate variables.
��0607.Inq.2 Identify tools and techniques needed to gather, organize, analyze, and interpret data collected from a moderately complex scientific investigation.
��0607.Inq.3 Use evidence from a dataset to determine cause and effect relationships that explain a phenomenon.
��0607.Inq.4 Review an experimental design to determine possible sources of bias or error, state alternative explanations, and identify questions

SPI are as listed;

SPI 0607.Inq.1 Design a simple experimental procedure with an identified control and appropriate variables.
SPI 0607.Inq.2 Select tools and procedures needed to conduct a moderately complex experiment.
SPI 0607.Inq.3 Interpret and translate data in a table, graph, or diagram.
SPI 0607.Inq.4 Draw a conclusion that establishes a cause and effect relationship supported by evidence.
SPI 0607.Inq.5 Identify a faulty interpretation of data that is due to bias or experimental error.

Credits

Resource List

All these sites were found by me going to the Google search engine and typing in the kind of picture I wanted. These sites are what I choose from my search.

Picture of the child in lab coat and all the method words around him http://science.phillipmartin.info/science_scientificmethod.htm

Picture of girl and boy doing a lab experiment http://www.wearteaching.com/index/mn31868/Why

Picture of lab equipment http://njcollegeprep.org/school/science_fair/sciencefair/site/home.html

Picture of all the words for Scientific Method http://www.canstockphoto.com/scientific-method-background-concept-3395500.html

Picture of Rubric man http://webpages.shepherd.edu/jsprag01/webquest%252520reviews.html

Picture of question mark and magnifying glass http://www.nextreads.com/Display2.aspx?SID=af3ecbff-3aae-4be9-81fd-5003b60c70e3&N=449590

This website was also used for a graphic flow chart of the Scientific Method and information for the students to use http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_scientific_method.shtml .

Other

The WebQuest’s Learning Objective

By the end of this WebQuest, the student will be able to list and describe all of the steps in the Scientific method, as well as implement them in an experiment and become more knowledgeable in the topic of their choice.