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1. The scientific method
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Create your own scientific glossary. Include the following words:
bibliography, factor, search engine, science, slide,
experiment, variable, graph, hypotheses, laboratory, scientific law, poster, web page, data table, theory
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has a series of steps
The scientific method
is carried out
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Research
papers
Fact sheets
Slideshow
presentations
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A laboratory
Formulating
a hypothesis
Analysis
of results
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is developed in
results are presented using
Research project
What dowe owe to the Ancient Greeks in the field of science?
The Greeks developed philosophy as a way of understanding the
world around them. Early Greek philosophers were also scientists
studied the known world, the Earth, seas, and mountains, the solar
system, planetary motion, and astral phenomena.
Astronomy, which began with the organisation of the stars into
constellations, was used, for practical purposes, to fix the calendar.
The Greeks estimated the size of the earth, they figured out how a
pulley and levers work, they studied refracted and reflected light, as
well as sound. In medicine, they looked at how the organs worked
and how diseases progress. They learned to make inferences from
observations. They made contributions to the field of mathematics.
Many of the ancient Greeks’ discoveries and inventions are still used
today, although some of their ideas have been overturned. At least
one, the discovery that the sun is the centre of the solar system, was
ignored and then rediscovered.
Pythagoros, Hypocrates, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes are just some
of the names of Greek thinkers that were the early scientists.
N.S.Gill, (n.d.), What We Owe to the Ancient Greeks in the Field
of Science [web article]. Retrieved and adapted from:
ekScientificInventions.htm (Adapted)
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What did the early Greek philosophers do?
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Find out what discoveries the philosophers mentioned in the text made.
READ AND UNDERSTAND SCIENCE
Pythagoros
