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Are Scientists Robots?
Category: For Educators, Strategies for Outreach, Education, and Communication, Communicating Science, Lesson Plans, Media, and Collaborative Research
Resource Type: Multimedia
Date Posted: 02/21/2012
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Are Scientists Robots?






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Benchmarks:
Big Idea 1: The Practice of Science

    • SC.6.N.1.5 Recognize that science involves creativity, not just in designing experiments, but also in creating explanations that fit evidence.
    • SC.7.N.1.5 Describe the methods used in the pursuit of a scientific explanation as seen in different fields of science such as biology, geology, and physics.
    • SC.8.N.1.5 Analyze the methods used to develop a scientific explanation as seen in different fields of science.
    • SC.8.N.1.6 Understand that scientific investigations involve the collection of relevant empirical evidence, the use of logical reasoning, and the application of imagination in devising hypotheses, predictions, explanations and models to make sense of the collected evidence.
    • SC.912.N.1.7 Recognize the role of creativity in constructing scientific questions, methods and explanations.
Guiding Questions
  • At the beginning of the video, why did the narrator think that all scientists were robots?
  • What experience changed is mind?
  • Give at least two examples of how the narrator collected objective data.
  • What is one example the narrator gave that supports the idea that scientists are not robots?

Resources (Guiding questions, benchmarks, vocabulary definitions) (PDF, 156 KB)

Additional Resources
Venus Clam Aquaculture website
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