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This is an activity is ONE Lesson. In this lesson students explore what a scientific hypothesis really means. Textbooks, and hence teachers tend to use hypothesis and prediction interchangeably to mean the same thing. But they really are different. This lesson shows this difference. Furthermore, a hypothesis is often referred to as "an educated guess." This is how the term 'hypothesis' is used in the social context. However, in the field of science, a hypothesis is NOT a guess. Referring it to

This is an awesome investigation for students to test a hypothesis, and learn about the nature of science - i.e., how science works in practice. In this lesson, the teacher poses the question, "Why don't we have paper spoons?" through setting a scenario. The teacher also provide students with two hypotheses, and students pick one and plan a procedure themselves to either support or refute the hypothesis they have chosen. The students are not assessed on reaching a 'correct' answer to the questio

Classification is a skill that is central to concept formation. We impose order by observing similarities, differences, and interrelationships and grouping objects accordingly to suit some purpose. This lesson is designed to assess students’ ability to classify a given set of organisms based on their observable characteristics. This package is designed to be used as an assessment of students’ understanding of binary and multi-stage classification systems.

This is a short assessment that could be given as a diagnostic assessment to check on students’ prior knowledge and skills on the following: •Interpret and draw inferences from experimental data •Explain the activity of an enzyme at different temperatures •Determine scales and construct graphs •Read and explain the shape of a graph