Science Writing Task 2012-2013 OUTLINE

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Intro a. The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them, states Sir William Lawrence Bragg, an Australian-born British physicist. Therefore, science is not about just memorizing the school textbook or receiving the best score in the class on a test; instead, science is about asking questions about the world and coming up with useful and reliable answers. b. Braggs statement describes the scientific method, a process that any life scientist, such as Irene Duhart Long and Geerat Vermejj, utilizes, anywhere and to do anything related to life, such as discover how organisms interact with each other and the environment or how organisms function and behave. c. For instance, ________. (State the problem that is stated in the prompt.) d. At the outset, the scientific method is my plan to__________. e. I would have to ask a problem, do research, formulate a hypothesis, collect materials, carry out the experiment, make observations, record data, and then make conclusions. f. Thesis: I hypothesize that if I were to ______, I would ______, ______, and ______.

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First Body Paragraph a. Topic Sentence b. Explain idea in one or more sentences. c. Give textual evidence from the prompt to support idea (what led me to think of that idea.) d. Explain relevance to idea, while using scientific method terms. e. Closing Sentence

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Second Body Paragraph

Science Writing Task 2012-2013 OUTLINE a. Topic Sentence b. Explain idea in one or more sentences. c. Give textual evidence from the prompt to support idea (what led me to think of that idea.) d. Explain relevance to idea, while using scientific method terms. e. Closing Sentence IV. Third Body Paragraph a. Topic Sentence b. Explain idea in one or more sentences. c. Give textual evidence from the prompt to support idea (what led me to think of that idea.) d. Explain relevance to idea, while using scientific method terms. e. Closing Sentence V. Conclusion a. As per my metacognition, in order to ________, I would ________, _______, and _______. b. As with all life scientists, my plans basis would revolve around the scientific method. The four elements of the scientific method are characterizations, hypothesizes, predictions, and experiments. Basically, it is the plan of asking a problem, doing research, formulating a hypothesis, collecting materials, carrying out the experiment, making observations, recording data, and then making conclusions. c. The scientific method can also be applied to (prompt topic); if I were if I were to ______, I would use the scientific method and my own ideas.