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2) I have internet at my mom's house but not at my dad's 3) This will be a good way for us to communicate with each other when we are not at school and have questions. Also it will give us a chance to read what everyone has to say because in class we may not have time to hear what everyone thinks and some people are shy. || In the reading it explained the scientific method step by step. It started by talking about observations and how if we don't observe things we never truly get anywhere. It also talked about how scientists use mathematics in their experiments. The reading explained that behind every equation is a plain English sentence that goes along with it and makes it seem simpler. It then went on to talk about Facts, Hypotheses, Laws, and Theories. It stated that facts are simply conferred observations. That hypothesis’ are tentative educated guesses, and that a more refined type of scientific statement is what a law is. A well-substantiated explanatory description of the world based on a large number of independently verified observations and experimental tests is a theory. The reading shows that theories and laws are not always true. Then it goes on to talk about prediction and testing. In the reading is says “Every law and theory of nature is subjected to change, based on new observations” This is definitely true there is no doubt about it, it really makes me wonder what else is wrong,? How do we find out it is wrong? How long will it take us to find out? Will we ever be completely right with anything? Anyways in the reading it said that there is no specific order to scientific method, so in class when we were talking about how we thought that scientific method was followed for all scientists but it didn’t have to go in a certain order we were correct. || 6. Describe the steps of the scientific method: the scientific method can go in any order but basically scientific method starts with a hypothesis then the person make predictions, then observations, experiments, data, and last comes identifying patterns. Preconceptions is part of all of those. 7. Describe the roles of hypothesis, theories, and predictions in the scientific method: Well hypotheses is an educated guess using facts on what they think will happen. Theories are like laws but they can change by being disproved. Predictions are what they think might happen based certain theories. 8. Describe the difference between an observation and an experiment: you don’t have to do experiment to observe things, an example is earthquakes, we don’t make earthquakes but we do observe them. 9. Why might the term scientific cycle be good substitute for scientific method: Scientific method is a cycle. Therefore it should make more since to call it scientific cycle. Scientific method sounds like it has to go in a certain order and that is does not repeat over and over again. It sounds more accurate to call it scientific cycle rather then scientific method. ||
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 * 1) I dont have many experiences with online tools like wikispace
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