Fossil Find

How strange is this? I was checking my email tonight and found this from Nova. I linked the picture to the Nova site (click on the picture) where you can watch the program online. See how these real paleontologists debate their findings and reach very different conclusions on what this animal looked like. Sound familiar?

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88 thoughts on “Fossil Find

  1. The process of science includes the formulation of scientifically investigable questions, construction of investigations into those questions, the collection of appropriate data, the evaluation of the meaning of those data, and the communication of this evaluation.

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  2. The process of science includes formulative questions, construction, the collecting of the data, and the answer to the question.

  3. the process of science is the practices used in science to discover new knowledge and interpret the meaning of that knowledge.

  4. I think the Process of Science is using the Scientific Method to discover new things in a creative way. The Process of Science is also learning how to create new substances and learning new skills.

  5. The processes of science include the formulation of scientifically investigable questions, construction of investigations into those questions, the collection of appropriate data, the evaluation of the meaning of those data, and the communication of this evaluation

    The process of science has nothing to do with the scientific method and that to obtain information is to observate and make infrences.

    I read on a diffrent website that the process of science refers to the practices employed in science to uncover knowledge and interpret the meaning of those discoveries.

    I think the process of science means that the proper way to solve scientifically investigable questions. The scientific method is used for an expirement. They are completely diffrent methods and ways.

  6. I found the process of science in Big Ideas #1. “The processes of science include the formulation of scientifically investigable questions, construction of investigations into those questions, the collection of appropriate data, the evaluation of the meaning of those data, and the communication of this evaluation.” This means that you ask your questions, research them and find the answers, and put them into a hypothesis, test it, and then finally putting your data into a conclusion.

  7. i thought the fossil find was awesome and when im older i want to be a paleontologist so i can travel the whole world and find fossils. then i could get money out of i and then take the fossils to a lab and try to figure out what the animal was and then they get to make fake fossils for the museums.

  8. The process of Science is creating a hypothesis, collecting data, and then evaluating your hypothesis and stating whether or not it was right, by using proven data. Alson known as your conclusion.

  9. I think the process of science is when you use mainly the scientific method to explore something in a different way, or look at something from a different view, but yet in an intresting way.

  10. I think you can find out things in a different way using the process of science.Things might come when you are using the process of science and not come up using other mythods.

  11. That dinosaur video was very cool. The idea that dinosaurs have four wings is very interesting to me. Maybe they should be classified as birds

  12. I think the process of science is when you use your scientific methods such observations and data you have already collected and solving your hypothesis.

  13. I agree, the process of science is using the scienctific method to slove your problem. Forming a question, writing a hypothosis, conducting an experiment, collecting data, and then coming to a conclusion.

  14. I agree with both nicholas and farwa that the process of science is about is using the scientific method to solve your hypothesis by using the data from the experiment and finding your conclusion on the experiment.

  15. Hey Mr. Grant,
    Ok so i am working on the hw for fossil find (hypothesis and idv and dv) but I am having trouble figuring out what the dependent variable is. Could you help me?? Thanks Caroline

  16. I believe that by using the process of science, you are creating or studying hypothesis, observing and recording data. Also by using the process of science you could be finding similar characteristics between whatever you are studying. :)

    I love this website, and I really like the fossil find activity that we did in class.

  17. The Independent variable, and dependent variable was confusing on this activity, because it was hard to create a hypothesis.

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