Classroom Activities: The Origin of Species: The Making of a Theory. The Origin of Species: The Making of a Theory. WebQuest - Introduction. Anyone can make a website. How do you know whether or not to trust what you read online? Here are some tips. Ask yourself the following questions as you look at websites: Who is the author? Is the information accurate? This WebQuest will ask you to read some information that will help you answer those four questions. Read carefully and you might have fun while you see for yourself that everything you read online is not true!
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Lifemapper makes use of massive archives of online geospatial species occurrence data and global climate and land cover data contributed by research biologists and biological museums around the world. The Critter Catalog is a web resource that provides rich information on local animal populations including appearance, habitat, predator-prey relationships, and endangerment. Based on data from the Animal Diversity Web, the Critter Catalog transforms complex scientific content into a manageable and age-appropriate resource to support inquiry questioning and explanation building by 4-6th grade audiences. The Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan. Earthquake Science Explained--A Series of Ten Short Articles for Students, Teachers, and Families. Recent images of massive earthquake-induced waves washing away entire towns or buildings reduced to rubble by the violent shaking of Earth’s crustal plates have underlined, all too painfully, the importance of understanding our dynamic and ever-changing Earth.
These natural earthquake hazards will always be with us, but the consequences are not inevitable—if we prepare for them. An essential part of that preparation is education. Education is the key to ensuring that people take appropriate actions when living in earthquakeprone areas and for supporting policies and decisions that will save lives and property. Earthquake Science Explained is a series of short articles for students, teachers, and parents originally published as weekly features in The San Francisco Chronicle.
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Session 2, Part C: Precision and Accuracy. We have learned that physical measurement involves error and that every physical measurement is an approximation. This leads us to a new question: How much error is involved in any given measurement? The terms precision and accuracy relate to how good an approximation is. For example, how precise were our measurements of the sides of the right triangles, and how accurate were our measurements of the distance from Mars to the Sun? Since measurements are approximate, the most meaningful way of interpreting a measurement is as an interval with a lower bound and an upper bound.
Imagine that we have measured a line segment, using a ruler divided into centimeters, and found the length to be 5 cm. To be more precise, we can state the measure as an interval -- either in words, 5 cm to the nearest 0.5 cm, or using notation, such as 5 cm 0.5 cm (read "5 cm plus or minus 0.5 cm"). 0.5 implies a lower bound of 4.5 and an upper bound of 5.5). Accuracy and Precision. Significant Figures - Time-saving Science Video by Brightstorm. When working with scientific data, we only want to show as many figures as carry accurate meaning, called significant figures. When adding or subtracting two numbers, we round to the same number of decimal places as the term with the fewest decimal places. When multiplying or dividing numbers we round to the same number of figures as the term with the lowest number of significant figures.
In scientific notation, the digit term, not the exponential term counts as significant. This segment let's go ahead and discuss significant figures or as you've probably heard they're more likely called sig figs. The first rule applies to non zeros integers so non zero integers always count as sig figs so if I have a number 1, 2, 3, 4 all four of those numbers will be significant figures. The second are captive zeros, those are the zeros that fall in between non zero digits and those guys always count as sig figs, for instance if you had the number 1.0012 you're going to have 5 significant figures.
Dimensional Analysis - Time-saving Science Video by Brightstorm. Alright, when you are in Chemistry class you're going to be doing a lot of converting. A lot of converting from moles to grams, grams to moles, ions, molecules a lot. So we want to make sure we can do that in a way that makes sense. So we're going to talk about dimensional analysis, it's just a method of converting from one unit to another. You might actually call it Factor Label Method depends on what your teacher likes to use. Alright, so we're going to actually do an example rather tha... n explain what it is cause it's actually easier to explain via example rather than just a bold explanation. Alright, so the first thing you're going to do when you're converting from one unit to another, in this case 7 days to seconds, we are going to start off with our given and our given in this case we're given 7 days, okay.
Okay, but I don't want hours, I want seconds. Let's do something a little bit harder, let's just say we're changing two units, okay? I know in one minute, I have 60 seconds.