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Title:
Pseudoscience
When:
Fri, Aug 27
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Standards/Benchmarks:
• SC.912.N.2.1: Identify what is science, what clearly is not science, and what superficially resembles science (but fails to meet the criteria for science).
• SC.912.N.2.2: Identify which questions can be answered through science and which questions are outside the boundaries of scientific investigation, such as questions addressed by other ways of knowing, such as art, philosophy, and religion.
• SC.912.N.2.3: Identify examples of pseudoscience (such as astrology, phrenology) in society.
Essential Question/s: What is Pseudoscience, how can it be recognized and what are some examples?
Lesson Agenda:
1. FCAT Word Slam: Pseudoscience
2. Review Word Slam: Observation
3. Intro to Pseudoscience
4. Video Pseudoscience (students complete questions)
How we will learn it:
• Explicit Instruction: Give examples of pseudoscience from the media, define pseudoscience.
• Modeled Instruction: Illustrate a correct response to the first couple of questions in the movie review.
• Independent Practice: Students complete the video questions from Pseudoscience.
Formative Assessment (How we will know we learned it?): Misconception meltdown: astrology, 3-2-1: 1 example of pseudoscience, 2 examples of true sciences, 3 of the processes of the scientific method.
Relevance/Closure (How will we use it?): A more logical and reliable look at the world and begin the development of a healthy skepticism regarding claims posed as scientific.
What we're going to learn: What does the process of science look like.
Materials/Resources: Laptop, projector, movie questions, video

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