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**Day Seven - The Nature of Science ** by George Mikota III esson Plan Document Typ sson Plan **Lesson Plan Subject** Science **Topic** The Nature of Science **Grade Level** 8th grade **Time Frame** 50 minutes **Overall Goal/ Purpose**

The overall purpose of this lesson will be for the students to discover what important roles scientists play in our society, and some important scientists and their world-altering discoveries. **State Standards** **Instructional Objectives** The students will understand who a scientist and be able to explain some benefits of scientific work **Materials** a list of predetermined pairings of students a list of famous scientists **Procedures** out what field the scientist work(ed) in, what they invented, how their invention changed our society, and how the scientist was inspired. 10. The students will be given 2 class days to work on this project, and will be given a rubric with which they will be graded. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">**Assessment** The students will be given a rubric that they will be graded on.
 * <span style="color: black; display: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: right;">**IL Correlated Sets** -- ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">**IL.13.A.5b** || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">**> Explain criteria that scientists use to evaluate the validity of scientific claims and theories.** ||
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The teacher will begin the class with a 2 minute bell ringer exercise where the students will be asked to
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">think of as many inventions by scientists as they can and write them down.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">After the students have finished this exercise, the teacher will go around the room and ask the students to
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">give 3 examples from what they written down and write them on the board. After a few minutes of this
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">exercise, the teacher will explain to the students that these inventions, and almost everything that they know,
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">was discovered or created by someone.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The teacher will then begin a short presentation on a famous scientist, and begin to explain an activity that
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">they will be paired up for. This portion of the teacher's presentation will focus on the scientist's biography.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The students will be put into groups of 2 and be given a scientist to research. The students will have to find