Tuesday, March 24, 2009

As we continue with water.....

Hi All,

As we continue our water studies, I will be getting you a complete data set to begin working with next Tuesday. While you await that, I want you to begin viewing a very interesting film that is the starting point for our next unit on cells and DNA - The Journey of Man. Please complete the following work for Thursday's class.

At the halfway point of The Journey of Man, I hope that you are enjoying the scientific and cultural intensity of this film. Spencer Wells sums up the common difficulty of bridging science and culture when he asks, "What do you do when everything you believe in flies in the face of everything you know?" As a good scientist, he sets out with a set of hypotheses to gather data and test those hypotheses. Please answer the following two questions in your science notebooks for Thursday, March 26th:
1. For you, what was the most profound or useful scientific information or phenomenon addressed in the film so far? How and why did it affect you?

2. What was the most interesting or profound cultural element addressed in the film so far ? How and why did it affect you?

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