For the last few days, we've been working on the Black Bottle Investigation - to try to figure out the bottles mystery of how it works. This is what B8's Scientific Discovery Notebook looks like. All of the other classroom sets look very similar.
Elements I'm looking for:
Elements I'm looking for:
- Vocabulary:
- Qualitative Observation
- Quantitative Observation
- Phenomenon
- Hypothesis
- Investigation 1 Data Table of all 8 pour in's.
- Observation & Inference Section
- Must have at least 3 observations & inferences
- Question Section
- Must have at least 3 questions posted.
- Model & Hypothesis 1: your idea
- Model & Hypothesis 2: your team idea
- Experimental Design: Your teams experimental procedures
- Must have:
- "What we're testing for is..."
- "How we're going to test it is..."
- "What we're expecting to see if our hypothesis is correct is..."
- Must have:
- Results & Reflection
- Must have a reflection of at least your own experiment and possibly other people's experiments.
- Other people's experiments
- must have at least 5 other experiments posted.
- Model & Hypothesis 3: final idea of how it works.
detailed Elements of the black bottle write up
- Objective:
- What we're going to do is investigate how the black bottle works as a system by initially pouring in water and measureing how much water comes out.
- Vocabulary:
- Qualitative Observations: (Quality = root word based on description)
- These observations are descriptive based on the 5 senses.
- how something smells, feels, tastes etc.
- These observations are descriptive based on the 5 senses.
- Quantitative Observations: (Quantity = root word based on numbers)
- These observations are based on numbers.
- i.e. density, temperature, length, time etc.
- These observations are based on numbers.
- Phenomenon:
- The natural occurrence that causes one to ask questions and launch an investigation or pose an explanation rooted in scientific reasoning.
- This observation piques your curiosity.
- The initial phenomena, in this case, is when I poured in water, but nothing came out. Other phenomena came out as we conducted further experiments.
- Qualitative Observations: (Quality = root word based on description)
- Investigation 1: Pouring in different amounts of water into the bottle and measuring how much comes out.
- See data table on picture 2.
- Use the link to see a video of me running the first series of experiments.
- Observations & Inferences
- Making observations - then interpreting (inferring) what the observations mean. (Picture 3)
- Questions:
- These questions are generated from students as they witnessed the phenomena. (Picture 4).
- Hypothesis:
- This is where you individually came up with the model and an explanation of how the bottle works. (Pictures 5-6)
- Vocabulary: Hypothesis
- Hypothesis:
- A possible explanation for a set of observations
- An answer to a scientific question
- An educated guess
- Can be an if/then statement.
- Difference between a hypothesis and thesis (Picture 7)
- Thesis:
- A thesis is a claim in an argument that you're proving to be true.
- Hypothesis:
- An "under" claim because it lacks enough conclusive evidence. This is why we conduct investigations so that we can gather more evidence.
- Thesis:
- Hypothesis:
- Experimental Design: (Page 8)
- What we are wondering about is, or what we want to know is... (the part of the hypothesis you're wanting to test for)
- To test this, we're going to... (describe the steps you're wanting to take for your experiment. Include procedures and materials needed to run your experiment).
- If we're right, we're expecting to see... (describe your expected outcome based on your hypothesis)
- Results & Reflection
- What we observed was... (List observations made, or data collected as a result of your experiment).
- What this means is... (Describe your inference)
- [Where do we go from here]
- Does this mean that you need to modify your hypothesis / design? If so, how?
- Or do you need to run further tests - if so, what test would you run?
- What we observed was... (List observations made, or data collected as a result of your experiment).
- Pages 9-11 are the results of other students tests.
- Page 12 is your last hypothesis based on the observations of other peoples tests / experiments.