Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Discoveries and Inventions of the Scientific Revolution

A link to today's handout can be found here!

Do now: Read the article What is the Scientific Revolution? Read, highlight, track-- be ready to summarize as a class.

Class notes: Origins of the Scientific Method. What ideas contributed to the development of the scientific method? How can you see these ideas come out in the method?



Class notes: Complete the notes on the following famous scientists and inventions from the Scientific Revolution.



Homework (due on Thursday): 

1. District 8&9 Test Corrections.

2. Personal Profiles. Bacon and Descartes: Read, track, highlight and summarize these short passages about Bacon and Descartes and their contributions to the scientific method.

3. Building a timeline. In this district, you are learning about the discoveries and inventions of the Scientific Revolution-- things that essentially made it possible for us to have all the cool stuff we have today. From spaceships to ipods, the Scientific Revolution laid the foundation for modern science.

Create a timeline using this template.

Label the events related to the Scientific Revolution using red and events related to other things blue. Put a picture (insert image by url) by each event to represent it.

Scientific Revolution:
1609 - Galileo uses his telescope to study planets
1590 - Zacharias Janssen invents the microscope
1543 - Copernicus publishes his theory of the sun-centered solar system
1687 - Sir Isaac Newton publishes Principia Mathematica

Other Events:
1690 - John Locke argues that people have certain natural rights
1533 - Francisco Pizarro conquers the Incas
1620 - The Mayflower sets sail for North America
1632 - Construction begins on the Taj Mahal in India

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