TheHotChocolateEffectIntroducingtheScientificMethod.pptVIP

The Hot Chocolate Effect:Introducing the Scientific Method Science according toScience Educators Science according toScience Educators Painting according toScience Educators Painting according toScience Educators Science according toScientists The Essential Elementsof the Scientific Method Observation Hypothesis formation Experimentation Peer review Problem: How can we show our pre-service elementary teachers the real nature of science? The Hot Chocolate Effect The Hot Chocolate Effect intrigues everyone who hears it! Other science faculty Science students Students of science students The Hot Chocolate Effect intrigues everyone who hears it! My yoga class You Everyone is hooked! Named byFrank Crawfordin 1982 Our First Lab Students’ Reactions in Lab The Day after Lab Use students’ journals to discuss what they did. Review their lab comments and identify them with the essential elements of the scientific method. Hot chocolate context breathes life into the textbook scientific method. Students really, really, really want to know the answer. A good mystery is more compelling than a mere “fact”. What Causes theHot Chocolate Effect? However, the Coke analogy does not explain the rising pitch of the hot chocolate! Tiny bubbles in the hot chocolate lower the speed of sound in the liquid by making it more compressible (less “springy”). The Rising Pitch It takes more time for the sound to travel between the bottom of the mug and the surface (lower pitch). As the bubbles rise and burst, the speed of sound increases and the pitch rises. Bradley W. Carroll and Michelle B. More Weber State University Ogden, UT Physics Chemistry This is a severe distillation of the scientific method! This is a severe distillation of the painting method! “The scientific method is doing your damnedest, no holds barred.” - P.W. Bridgman Nobel Prize 1946for high-pressure physics are intertwined with curiosity, inspiration, frustration, ten