Explanation of Lab 1

Hello everyone. Some of you wanted a more visual explanation of what to do for lab / exercise 1. Exercise 1 Learning About The Natural World will be due with the chapter 1 items. Normally you'd do a lab like this in a traditional lab, but with an online class, we will improvise to do as much as we can in a home setting. Start off reading the introduction here, look at the objectives. Next it is probably a good idea to read through the whole lab to get an idea of what you'll be doing. Ideally, after you read the lab you should be able to answer the prelab questions. #1-10 on page 7. Now back to the beginning. Read the materials you will need. Blindfold. Small Crystal Thermometer. Instead of beakers, some cups with sound deadening material to put inside. Continue reading the procedure. Page 1. Page 2. More important terms to take note off. Question, Hypothesis, Prediction, Observations, experiment, why they are necessary for scientific method. Read also about treatment and control group. Independent and dependent variables. Never forget to take a look at and study diagrams. #3 is where you actually start doing some experiments. It contains the procedures. Goes along with TAble 1-1. They've filled in most of it for you. You are actually supposed to try testing the questions here. Keep following the procedure to here. On to page 3. Next in 3b you will test that observation, question and hypothesis. It is filled in for you in the chart. Test this one as well. (Holding breath) Again the chart is filled out for you for this one. As you do the tests, this page is for filling in and collecting data. Here is the one for the breath holding test. Make a graph of you data. Ear question data goes here. The veins and swellings under the skin test goes here. Here is the test where the thermometer will come in handy. Again this is all written up for you. 3d is the test that requires the thermometer. And there is even a graph to fill in on this page again. Helps to keep your data. Now that you've practiced testing four questions, Now it is time to come up with your own. It goes in this area of the table that has been left blank for you. It is nice if hypotheses can be "if/then"statements. On page four, this is where you can write up your own question. Do something that you have the resources at home for. (an idea was my statement written on D2L about people's pupils). Write your information down here. You may need to find someone to help you. Do your test. This area on the bottom of page four is an area you could use for your data. You do not have to do the statistic question on page 4. Read about Theories and Principles. General idea of first part of lab was to practice scientific method. Page 6 you can practice more by looking up some scientific articles. The link to the Riverland Library is on D2L. Check research journals online or in the library. Fill in the information about it. Last when you are all finished go to page 8 and complete the post lab questions. Submit in the correct fashion. Preferred is to scan it in and submit to the dropbox. Can also tear it out and mail it in. If mailing, try to make a copy first for yourself to keep in case mail gets lost.