Monday, April 29, 2013

Monday April 29, 2013

Today the students finished the lorax movie and will have to complete the questions I gave them for homework before the beginning of the next class.

They were also assigned vocabulary words for the next unit of study over experimental variables.

Here is a link to those words: CLICK HERE

They are also listed below in case the link doesn't work.

1.constant: variable that is not changed in an experiment
2.data: a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
3.graph: a drawing illustrating the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes
4.Hypothesis: an explanation that is based on prior scientific research or observations and that can be tested
5.physical properties: the characteristics of a substance that can be observed or measured without changing the substance
6.questions: something asked in order to find out something
7.research: a careful study or investigation in order to learn facts
8.results: data and observations gathered from the experiment
9.solar: relating to or derived from the sun or utilizing the energies of the sun
10.variable: a factor that can change in an experiment