1. What Is the Name of Mr. Collea S Website for This Class? ______

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Learning Packet
Assignment #1: _____
Assignment #2: _____
Assignment #3: _____
Assignment #4: _____
Assignment #5: _____ / North Salem High School
MISSION: Engage students to continuously learn, question, define and solve problems through critical and creative thinking.
Biology as a Science
(pp. 13-17)
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Assignment #1

Directions: Base your answers to each of the following questions on your Course Information Sheet.

1. What is the name of Mr. Collea’s website for this class? ______

2. In your opinion, which 2 Helpful Suggestions are the most important and why?

______

3. Which 2 days does Mr. Collea have extra help? ______

4. List the supplies you will need for this class.

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5. What will be the 4 sections of your Biology Binder.

(1) ______(2) ______(3) ______(4) ______

6. Late homework is never accepted. True or False

7. Exams will make up approximately what percentage of your quarter grade? ______

8. Homework, quizzes and labs will make up the remaining ______% of your grade.

9. According to the New York State Regents, ______minutes of successful lab work is

required for you to take the Living Environment Regents Exam in June?

10. What is Mr. Collea’s definition of being tardy?

______

11. Cell phones are never to be used during class. True or False

12. Mr. Collea can’t stand ______.

13. Make an inference as to who is one of Mr. Collea’s favorite authors. ______

14. Make one observation of your science classroom or science teacher and then make an inference based upon that observation.

Observation / Inference

Assignment #2

Directions: Go to Collea’s Corner to watch the below mentioned Ted-Ed video and

then answers the questions below.

Questions No One Knows the Answers To

- Chris Anderson

Background Information:

This TED-Ed video is designed to catalyze curiosity. TED Curator Chris Anderson shares his boyhood obsession with quirky questions that seem to have no answers.

1. List three questions Chris Anderson asked himself as a child.

(1) ______

(2) ______

(3) ______

2. List 3 questions you often ask yourself and would like to find the answers to.

(Be prepared to share at least one of these with the class.)

(1) ______

______

(2) ______

______

(3) ______

______

Assignment #3

Directions: Go to Collea’s Corner to watch the below mentioned Ted-Ed video starring Myth Buster Adam Savage and then answers the questions below.

How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries

- Adam Savage

Background Information:

Adam Savage walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative methods anyone could have followed -- Eratosthenes' calculation of the Earth's circumference around 200 BC and Hippolyte Fizeau's measurement of the speed of light in 1849.

1. What everyday observation prompted a young Richard Feynman to discuss inertia with his father?

(A) His dad falling asleep during synagogue services.

(B) A ball rolling to the back of a wagon.

(D) Getting knocked out by a baseball.

2. What things connect the three stories that Savage shares?

(1)

(2)

(3)

3. What prompted Eratosthenes to contemplate the circumference of a spherical Earth in the third century BC?

(A) A letter he received from a resident of the city of Swenet

(B) A dream his wife had

(D) His correspondence with Archimedes

4. Savage mentions the Large Hadron Collider as an example of modern scientific discovery that’s made possible by multi-billion dollar pieces of machinery. How does this dovetail with Savage’s hope that people will think of science as an open field versus a black box?

5. What’s remarkable about Eratosthenes’s measurements of the Earth?

(A) Egypt’s leader, Ptolemy III, forced him to renounce his claim that the Earth wasn’t flat.

(B) His work went unacknowledged during his own lifetime and was only rediscovered in the 1800s.

(D) He had to invent a whole new unit of distance because the distance was so long.

6. Savage says, “We’re all bags of meat and water” and that “we all start with the same tools.” Scientists like Feynman, Eratosthenes and Fizeau, he argues, just think a little harder about a question and are a little more curious. Do you agree with Savage that scientists are basically the same as anybody else? What other personality traits or habits of mind would be helpful to a scientist, in your opinion?

7. Armand Fizeau improved upon Galileo’s -

(A) telescope design. (C) documentation of the moon’s craters.

(B) argument for a sun-centered universe. (D) calculation of the speed of light.

8. Fizeau did this with simple equipment that included -

(A) three convex lenses, a candle and a tub of water.

(B) a light source, a notched wheel and a mirror.

(D) duct tape, some rope and a crazy dream.

Assignment #4

Directions: Go to Collea’s Corner to watch the below mentioned Ted-Ed video, What’s the Difference Between a Scientific Law and Theory and then

answers the questions below.

What’s the Difference Between a Scientific Law and Theory?

- Matt Anticole

Background Information:

Chat with a friend about an established scientific theory, and she might reply, “Well, that’s just a theory.” But a conversation about an established scientific law rarely ends with “Well, that’s just a law.” Why is that? What is the difference between a theory and a law... and is one “better”? Matt Anticole shows why science needs both laws and theories to understand the whole picture.

Which of the following best describes how theories relate to laws?

ATheories are laws that have not been proven true yet

BTheories attempt to explain why things happen and laws predict what will happen

CLaws attempt to explain why things happen and theories predict what will happen

DLaws are theories that have not been proven true yet

New data is found which goes against what scientists predicted should happen. Which of the following is NOT a potential result of the new research?

AA current theory is discarded because it cannot explain the new data

BA current theory is modified to better explain the new data

CA current law is charged to account for the new data

DAny of these are possible responses to new and unexpected data

What made Mendeleev's theory about the organization of matter in the periodic table so powerful?

AHis theory predicted unknown elements that were lataer found

BHe was the first scientist to attempt to organize elements in a pattern

CHis theory later 'grew up' into a law about elemental properties

DWhen he paired oxygen with potassium, it went 'OK'

Which of the following might be an example of a theory?

AYou develop an equation that successfully predicts the size of a crater given the size of the meteor

BYou publish a paper analyzing the elements that make up a sample of a meteorite

CYou develop an idea about why the frequency of meteor impacts varies in a consistent pattern over several decades of observation

DYou design a spacecraft that can land on a meteor and drill into it to sample its make-up

One can best compare the acceptance of a theory to:

AA foot race, where the first theory that comes up with an explanation wins

BA boxing match, where the winner has to be ready to fight the next opponent

CA lottery, where if you happen to be really lucky, you can win a prize

DA cafeteria line, where scientists can just pick and chose parts they like best from each theory

What is the difference between a law about gravity and a theory about gravity?

Before Louis Pasteur, people did not seriously think that tiny microbes could have much of an effect on the 'big-sized' world of people. Louis Pasteur challenged the theories of his time when he used microbes to explain how food was spoiling in factories. Research at least one new advance that was possible once people accepted that his theory was correct.

The following were once accepted theories but scientists eventually replaced them with better theories. Learn a bit more about one of them and find out why they didn’t make the cut! Write a five sentence paragraph about the one you chose. a. Alchemy b. The heliocentric model c. Spontaneous generation d. The interstellar aether

How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries

- Adam Savage

Background Information:

Assignment #4

Bikini Bottom Experiments

The Bikini Bottom gang loves their Honors Biology class and wanted to do a little research. Read the description for each experiment and use your knowledge of the scientific method to answer the questions.

1. Flower Power

SpongeBob loves to garden and wants to grow lots of pink flowers for his pal Sandy. He bought a

special Flower Power fertilizer to see if will help plants produce more flowers. He plants two plants of

the same size in separate containers with the same amount of potting soil. He places one plant in a sunny window and waters it every day with fertilized water. He places the other plant on a shelf in a closet and waters it with plain water every other day.

(a) What did SpongeBob do wrong in this experiment? Explain.

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(b) What should SpongeBob do to test the effectiveness of Flower Power fertilizer?

Design an experiment by writing your Procedure/Methodology and data table in the space below.

Procedure/Methodology Data Table

2. Super Snails

Gary is not the smartest snail in Bikini Bottom and believes he can improve his brain power by

eating Super Snail Snacks. In order to test this hypothesis, he recruits SpongeBob and several snail

friends to help him with the experiment. The snails ate one snack with each meal every day for three

weeks. SpongeBob created a test and gave it to the snails before they started eating the snacks as well as three weeks after eating the snacks.

(a) State Gary’s hypothesis as an If…then…statement.

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(b) Create a Data Table based upon Gary’s Methodology

in the space to the right and fill in the data table with

data that supports Gary’s hypothesis.

(3) Bubble Time

Patrick loves bubble gum and would like to be able to blow bigger bubbles than anyone else in

Bikini Bottom. To prepare for the Bikini Bottom Big Bubble Contest, he bought five different brands of bubble gum and needs your help to find the brand that creates the biggest bubbles. Write a Procedure/Methodology to test the bubble power of the bubble gum brands along with the data table Patrick would use for this experiment.

Procedure/Methodology Data Table

4. Patty Power

Mr. Krabs wants to make Bikini Bottoms a nicer place to live. He has created a new sauce that he

thinks will reduce the production of body gas associated with eating crabby patties from the Krusty

Krab. He recruits 100 customers with a history of gas problems. He has 50 of them (Group A) eat

crabby patties with the new sauce. The other 50 (Group B) eat crabby patties with sauce that looks just

like new sauce but is really just mixture of mayonnaise and food coloring (placebo). Both groups were told that they were getting the sauce that would reduce gas production. Two hours after eating the crabby patties, 30 customers in group A reported having fewer gas problems and 8 customers in group B reported having fewer gas problems.

(a) Which people are in the control group and why?

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(b) What is the independent variable in Mr. Krabs’ experiment?

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(d) What should Mr. Krabs’ conclusion be?

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(e) Why do you think 8 people in group B reported feeling better?

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5. Slimotosis

Sponge Bob notices that his pal Gary is suffering from slimotosis, which occurs when the shell

develops a nasty slime and gives off a horrible odor. His friend Patrick tells him that rubbing seaweed

on the shell is the perfect cure, while Sandy says that drinking Dr. Kelp will be a better cure. Sponge

Bob decides to test this cure by rubbing Gary with seaweed for 1 week and having him drink Dr. Kelp.

After a week of treatment, the slime is gone and Gary’s shell smells better.

(a) What is the independent variable of this experiment?

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(b) What is the dependent variable?

______

(d) Is this a VALID or INVALID experiment? Explain.

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(e) How would you modify this experiment to get more reliable results?

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6. Marshmallow Muscles

Larry was told that a certain muscle cream was the newest best thing on the market and claims to

double a person’s muscle power when used as part of a muscle-building workout. Interested in this

product, he buys the special muscle cream and recruits Patrick and SpongeBob to help him with an

experiment. Larry develops a special marshmallow weight-lifting program for Patrick and SpongeBob.

He meets with them once every day for a period of 2 weeks and keeps track of their results. Before

each session Patrick’s arms and back are lathered in the muscle cream, while Sponge Bob’s arms and

back are lathered with the regular lotion.

(a) Which person is in the control group? ______

(b) What is the independent variable? ______