UM NSCI Discussion
Description
Answer each of the following questions with a paragraph. (Question 2 can be answered with a bulleted list)
What are some observations that you personally could make of the planet Jupiter on a clear night? Please specify whether you’d use just your eyes, binoculars, or a small telescope.
If I say that the moon is in Gemini, could that be a scientific observation? What factors would need to be present to make it one?
Name 6 measuring tools you have or might find in a household.
- If I use a musical tuner app on my cell phone to determine the pitch of a sound, have I made an observation? Is it a repeatable observation?
- Explain why assessing the browning of a slice of apple left on the counter on a scale of 1-5 does not represent a repeatable, quantifiable observation.
- If your local radio station announces that the temperature is 50° and you are listening to it, who has made the observation?
- If I check timeanddate.com and learn that there’s a full moon next week, have I made an observation? Why or why not?
- Can I use the online archive of Hubble Space Telescope images to reject hypothesis using the scientific method? Why or why not? Who made the observations?
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