PRACTICE LAB INTRODUCTION

Using the Scientific Method to get a date

a. Observation:  I do not have a date for Friday night.

b. State a Problem:  Who can I go out with on Friday?

c. Gathering Information:  Ask various people the following items:

                             i.      Do you have plans for Friday?

                             ii.      Do you like me?

                                    1. This borders on becoming the experiment.

d.                        Form a hypothesis:  If I ask ______________ out for Friday night, then __________ will say "Yes" because ____________ likes me, doesn't have plans for Friday.

e. Perform an experiment:

                             i.      Ask _________________ to go out on Friday.

                             ii.      If desired, you could also ask the other "test subjects" as a control.

f.   Record and Analyze Data:

                              i.      Name             Likes me            Plans          Will go?

                             ii.      Subject A               Yes                 Yes               No                   

                            iii.      Subject B                No                  No               No

                            iv.      Subject C              Yes                  No               Yes

                             v.      Subject D              Yes                  No               No

g. State Your Conclusion:

                           i.      Based on the results of my experiment, Subject C is who I should ask out for a date on Friday Night.

h. Possible Errors: 

                       i.      Subject D will not go out with me because they are already dating someone.

                       ii.      Subject A is someone I might want to go out with later, if they don't have plans.

Practice Lab Situations

 These are the various situations you should be researching.  Each group will work on a different situation.

You go outside on a sunny day after a brief rain.  You look to the sky and notice a rainbow on the horizon opposite the location of the Sun.  What sort of questions pop into your mind?

You go outside on a chilly autumn afternoon.  As you are walking through the forest, you notice that the leaves have started to change colors and are falling from the trees.  What sort of questions pop into your mind?

While walking through Australia, you notice an animal with hair, lacking teeth, laying eggs.  What sorts of questions run through your mind?

Doctors have claimed that there is a 20% increase in childhood obesity.  They also claim that there is a 20% increase in childhood Gall Bladder disease.  What sort of questions pop into your mind?

Here is the worksheet that is to be handed in.

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