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1. Start the game by creating 3-4 teams or 3-4 individual competitors.2. Give each team/competitor a bell or buzzer to use when they want to respond.3. The competitor with the birthdate closest to the day’s date begins the game by picking 1 of
5 categories off the game board (slide 5). Game host should then click and read what is listed on the $ square of the category chosen for anyone to answer. The competitor who rings their bell/buzzer first gets a chance to do.
4. To advance to the answer, click on the question slide or the arrow in the lower right.5. If they answer correctly, they receive the appropriate money award and choose the next
category. (If a team answers incorrectly, you can subtract the award money as a variation on the game.)
6. Have teams take turns choosing the category after each wrong answer. 7. When you wish to return to the board game, click on the “home” icon in the lower left
corner. Clicking elsewhere will lead you to a wrong slide.8. When all category levels have been exhausted, click in any of the category cells at the top
of the game board to advance to the final bonus round.9. Participants can wager all or part of their winnings during the final round, and thus lose it if
their answer is wrong or win the amount if their answer is correct.10. Winner is the competitor with the most money at the end of play.11. If desired, have a simple reward for the winning team and consolation prizes for the non-
winners. Winner and consolation coupons are included in the “Materials” section of the Activity write up on the SciEd.ucar.edu website.
INSTRUCTIONS
Materials: PPT game; bells for each team/competitor; play money in $10, $20, $30, $40, and $50 denominations. These are sample questions. Please alter them to best suite your Nature of Science curriculum.
Choose a category. You will be asked a question.
You must give the correct answer.
Click to begin.
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Bonus Round
Science Methods
Nature of Science
Science Terms
True or False
Names of Scientists
Name given to a scientist who studies
weather
Question 1.1
Meteorologist
Name given to a scientist who studies matter and its
behavior
Question 1.2
Physicist
Name for a scientist who studies the behavior of
societies
Question 1.3
Sociologist
Name given to someone who invents, designs, and/or
builds something to address a need and/ or problem
Question 1.4
Engineer
Name for a scientist who studies the world
beyond Earth
Question 1.5
Astronomer
Realm of science
Question 2.1
The natural world
How evidence is obtainedin science
Question 2.2
Observation
Characteristic that makes scientific evidence
reliable
Question 2.3
It’s repeatable, consistent, predictable
(Answer must include one of these words)
Science findings are always…
Question 2.4
Tentative
Science is not just content. It is also a _______
Question 2.5
Process
Our knowledge of the natural world and the process
through which it is built
Question 3.1
Science
Potential explanations for what we observe in the
natural world
Question 3.2
Hypothesis
Information gleaned from observation
Question 3.3
Data
To collect information from part of an entity
Question 3.4
To sample
Not of the natural world
Question 3.5
Supernatural
True or False:Science is creative.
Question 4.1
True
True or False:Scientific ideas are
absolute and unchanging.
Question 4.2
False
True of False:“Hard” sciences are more
rigorous and scientific than “soft” sciences.
Question 4.3
False
True or False:In science,
there is not a single“Scientific Method”but many methods.
Question 4.4
True
True or False:Science is a solitary process.
Question 4.5
False
In addition to observation, the process of science always
begins with…
Question 5.1
A question
A scientific procedure often carried out to test an idea
Question 5.2
An experiment
What a scientist collects from his/her observations to obtain evidence
Question 5.3
Data
An expectation of a scientist when his/her research is finished and results are
known
Question 5.4
Communication(publication, presentation…)
A short written summary about a paragraph in length of
one’s research
Question 5.5
An abstract
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