8. what is science - part ii: mind mapping
task:
From the activites done in class and the ensuing discussion, interrelate all of the concepts below that somehow tie together and help illustrate important concepts about the nature of science.
rationale:
Synthesis is a higher level thinking process on the list of Bloom's Taxonomy of objectives. This assignment allows you to put many apparently disconnected things together in a coherent fashion to explain some basic tenets concerning the framework of science. Your words draw a concept map. You may include an actual drawing -- but you must have a narrative, too.
This is truly a 'college-level assignment.' It would take me a couple hours of writing and re-writing and re-writing and re-writing to get the desired "flow" of what i wanted to say -- 'flow-etry.'
The "numbers" on the statements don't mean anything -- they are just for reference.
- 1) from known to unknown
2) empirical rules: whirlybird / pendulum / mirror
3) waves: sound / light / EQ
4) autonomy / heteronomy
5) P / S / L waves - lag times
6) think tube / brain barrel
7) locating EQ with circles
8) joan of arc
9) brazilians speak portuguese
10) weather "sayings" / groundhog's day / super bowl - wall st
11) science & the 5 (?) senses
12) qualitative / quantitative
13) science is a process
14) cause - correlation - coincidence
15) honesty - replication - duplication
16) healthy skepticism - faithı - i disbelieve
17) analogic thinking -
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