Hypothesis

Questions:

WHAT DO TEACHERS LIKE?

WHAT DO TEACHERS LIKE TO EAT?

WHAT SNACKS DO TEACHERS LIKE?

These are great questions but not very specific! I had to do some more thinking….

 

  • ..I heard once that teachers care about health education. My teacher tells me about the benefits of eating fresh fruits and vegetables
  • …I wonder if teachers eat fresh fruits in the staffroom.
  • …I wonder if teachers choose healthy snacks instead of treats.

Once I had some more specific ideas I was able to write my hypothesis

Hypothesis: I hypothesize that teachers at our school will choose a healthy snack instead of an unhealthy snack during recess break. This is my hypothesis because teachers know about healthy eating. 

Your hypothesis is only one or two sentences but it covers all the important questions!

Who – Teachers

What – Snack Choice

Where – Our School

When – Recess break

Why – Because they know about healthy eating.

Doughnut worry!

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Here is some of the information from yesterday, remember- we are doing this project together. I will take the class through each big step, so don’t worry and be happy.

 

How can Ms. Lamba help me with my project??

I would be happy to

  • help you explore different themes and fields
  • monitor your progress with weekly check-ins
  • teach you how to write a great report
  • show you how to analyze your data with simple calculations
  • show you how to present your data with sharp looking graphs
  • help you prepare an effective oral presentation
  • tell you about my experience as a fair participant and a judge

 

I cannot

– tell you what to be passionate about

– do the work for you , conduct your trials for you or write your report

 

Remember: Take OWNERSHIP of this project and be PROUD of your research

 

 

“We’re not done doing science!”

 

ADVICE FROM PALEOECOLOGIST JILL:

“There is so much that we don’t know that we don’t know”

“All it takes is one person asking one question, and they can radically change how humans think”

“There are always parts of things that are hard and we don’t like”

“There are always unexpected difficulties and you will run into them but you need to push past them, once you push past them you get to something really exciting and that’s actually building knowledge for yourself!”

“Don’t tell the other scientists that I said that biology is really cool and probably the coolest”

 

 

Fun fact: Jill can tell you the weather at a certain point in time thousands of years ago more accurately than meteorologists can predict the weather a few days from now. 

What is science anyways?

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What is science? 

Asking questions and making observations

OR 

Making observations and asking questions

 

Science is about asking questions like – What, Why, How? When? What if… 

 

What kind of science is out there? 

There are many different fields of science- all scientists may have different goals or special ways of thinking depending on their field of study.

There is Mathematics, Computing, Biology,
Chemistry, Physics, Ecology, Environmental Science, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, and even art can be studied scientifically!

SCIENCE AND RESEARCH ALLOWS US TO LEARN ABOUT OUR WORLD

What do scientists do? They…

  • Ask questions and make observations/ make observations and ask questions
  • Make a hypothesis
  • Test their hypothesis
  • Draw conclusions from the results of their tests
  • Record and share their results