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Terrance Bogg Terrance Bogg, a well-known billionaire, is found dead on the floor of his office at 7:00 pm Saturday evening. He has been shot through the chest. Detective Green is called to solve the mystery.TRANSCRIPT
Scientific Method
Earth ScienceDr. Sims
Query of the Day
• Question:– Put the following steps in order for the scientific
method and describe each step.• Conclusion• Hypothesis• Observation• Problem• Results• Experiment
Terrance Bogg
• Terrance Bogg, a well-known billionaire, is found dead on the floor of his office at 7:00 pm Saturday evening. He has been shot through the chest. Detective Green is called to solve the mystery.
Terrence Bogg
• Detective Green discovers the following facts:– Bogg was shot with a 9mm handgun. The handgun is not
in the office now.– The maid heard the shot at 4:50 pm, but he thought it was
a car back-firing– The crime scene investigators who looked at the body at
7:45 pm said Bogg had been dead for three to four hours. – Two people had threatened Boggs.
• Mr. Stokes hated him because Bogg was ruining his business• Ms. Jones was fired as Bogg’s secretary last week. She was seen
at a local bar yelling that “Boggs should be shot!”
Terrence Bogg
• Mr. Stokes says he was at a party from 2pm to 5pm on Saturday afternoon
• Ms. Jones was in a car accident at 3:00pm on Saturday and has been in the hospital ever since with a broken leg and arm
• Mr. Stokes’ wife said he left the party at 4:30 to go to see his financial planner
• Mr. Stokes’ financial planner said he has not seen Mr. Stokes in over a month.
Lets fill in the first column
• Problem: (What is the problem)
• Hypothesis: (Make an educated guess about this story)
• Observations:
Terrence Boggs
• After searching Mr. Stokes’ house, Detective Green finds the 9mm gun and identify it as the same gun used to kill Mr. Boggs.
Lets finish the first column
• Experiment: (How will the hypothesis be tested?)
• Results/Data: (Results collected)
• Conclusion: (Confirm whether hypothesis is correct or not)
Starter 8/11/2010
• Question:
What is a hypothesis?
Lets try another
• In front of you is two beakers of water. One beaker has a soda, while the other has a regular (non-diet) soda.
Lets fill in the second column
• Problem:
• Observations:
• Hypothesis:
Lets finish the second column
• Experiment:
• Data:
• Conclusion: