Tuesday, January 24, 2012

What is Science?

Science, to me, is a knowledge that has to be obtained through practice. In other words, I think Science is used to explain different phenomenons and ordinary things by experimenting and observing.

Everyone has had a good and bad experience with Science.
  • The bad: I remember my Junior year in high school, my best friend and I took Chemistry together. We were messing around with chemicals, and so we had to wear lab coats. The class before us spilt all over mine and my best friends coats (what luck?!) and we both broke out in a nasty rash. We were sent home for the entire week.
  • The good: Same class, a few months later, my teacher had us bring some ingredients to make ice cream in a plastic baggie. I do not necessarily recall the process or anything, but I thought it was one of the coolest things ever. And it tasted great. 
 Science occurs in our every day lives. An example would be generically the scientific method.  We go through our day observing and processing information. Without realizing it, I am sure everyone uses the steps every single day.

For example, if our cell phone loses service, we begin to use the scientific method to find the source of the problem. We hypothesis what is wrong, observe other people phones, and try and fix it according to what we think the issue is. We repeat until we can conclude that their is no service in the basement of the SMLC building.

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1 comment:

  1. Melissa

    Nice job - you covered all the details. If was to grading this, I would have given it a 2 out of 3, meets expectations. For the "above expectations grade" I would have like to see a wee bit more details for each part. Please let me know if you have specific questions.

    Thanks

    Matt

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