Subject: Science, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)
Lesson Length: 45 mins - 1 hour
Topic: Science, Scientific Process, Hypotheses, Observation, Research, Experiments
Brief Description: Students will create a comic in which they visualize the scientific method.
Know Before You Start: Students should have a basic understanding of the steps in the scientific method.
Hook:
- Ask students:
- “What is a hypothesis and how is it part of the scientific method?”
- “Why is it important to follow the scientific method when exploring theories and hypotheses?”
- “What are some ways we can apply the scientific method to daily life?”
Activity:
- Have students discuss the steps in the scientific method and examples of when they've used the scientific method in class experiments and investigations.
- Students may also discuss variations on the steps, e.g., types of experiments that can be conducted.
- Have students select an experiment and create a comic that illustrates the scientific method.
Closure:
- Have students share their comics with the class or in small groups.
- Have students explain why they chose the experiment represented in their comic.
- Have students discuss why it’s important to follow the scientific method during investigations.
- Discuss how the scientific method can be used to help solve day-to-day problems.
- Emphasize that the scientific method helps formalize the way that scientific investigations are carried out.
Differentiation:
- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to work in pairs or groups as needed.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
- Allow students to provide a continuous example using the same experiment, or illustrate the scientific method using different experiments and examples.
- Allow for some variation in how the scientific method is represented to account for slightly different interpretations of the steps.
Resources:
Suggested Content Packs:
The Laboratory
Suggested Story Starters:
