Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Skills Scientists Use

Yesterday's field trip to the Agricultural Building at the Cabarrus County fair was great!

We have been working on measuring length using the metric system (meters) on Friday, Monday, and today. Today we specifically worked on converting measurements from one unit to another (for example: meters (m) to centimeters(cm) or kilograms(kg) to milligrams(mg). Students took notes on p. 11 of their notebook. They were also given a "Metric Conversion Worksheet". Students will have some time to work on this in class on Thursday and Friday, but numbers 1-30 need to be complete by Monday, so they may have to work on it some outside of class.

Tomorrow we will discuss two other skills a scientist uses--observation and making inferences.

Friday will be about types of variables in a science experiment. Check back for more information on that.

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