State Goal Content
Conduct Scientific Investigations to answer biological questions. Collect and record data. Organize data into charts and graphs.Analyze and interpret data. Communicate findings. Distinguish and appropriately graph dependent and independent variables. Discuss the best method of graphing/presenting particular data. Report and share investigation results with others. Acurate Measuring (miniscus, balanceing scales, etc.)
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Activities
1. Anticipatory Set: video clip (news announcing birth of Dolly (cloned mammal))
Students will: discuss moral, ethical, and religious issues related to scientific method and problem solving
COMPREHENSION:
Brainstorm with your group, what are the social, religious, and political limitations of science.
3. Oomycetes Lab Simple Lab to instroduce conducting a scientific investigation.
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Essential Questions
1. You are a scientist who has been asked to present your work at a prestigious scientific conference. You are very flattered and excited. However, there is one problem: your experiments contradict the findings of another scientist who is considered an expert in your field. You have studied the experiments of this scientist and cannot duplicate the results and suspect that there are some errors (perhaps intentional, perhaps accidental). Do you accept the invitation and change your data to support this other scientist, which would ruin your results and your scientific credibility? Do you point out the discrepancies, thereby embarrassing and probably angering this scientist and many supporters in the scientific community? Do you decline the invitation and wait until you have more data to back up your own word, realizing that the chance to speak at this conference may not come up again for a long time, if ever? You also realize that if your work is recognized as valid, you could receive a lot of grant money to help you with more research? What do you do?
2. You are a doctor with a terminally ill patient. You have access to an experimental drug which may cure them or it may kill them instantly. Would you recommend the drug?
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