Greek Science- The Dawn and Death of Science

During this unit, students will explore the beginning or roots of true science.  The science of the past was based on observations.  The Greeks would take this to the next step with their creation of explanatory stories.  Sadly, many Greeks did not take science to the next step and perform experiments.  So, the Greeks would take the science of the past, observation, and add to this the questioning of why and then hypothesize an answer.  From this you can see that the development of science itself is rooted in the scientific method.  However, science will have died in Europe by the end of this unit and the knowledge of the ancients will remain prominent for 1600 years.

Other topics to be covered:
    1.  Ptolemaic model of the Solar System       
    2.  Aristotle's Realms of Matter
    3.  Observations of Anaximander, Erastothenes and Pliny the Elder
    4.  Aristotle's Classification       
    5.  Constellations and the Myths that accompany them

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Greek Reading Packet		Greek GUTS		Create a Constellation
DIGI-FROG		Inferences and Observations		The Virtual Human
Contour Map Activity		Classification of Unknown Beings		Aristotle PowerPoint
Constellations PowerPoint		Contour Maps PowerPoint		Ptolemy PowerPoint