Hi there! I hope everyone's enjoying a nice long weekend.

Well, we are now entering into our third week of the the quarter and the school year. So far everyone's worked hard. A few things for this post:

First- Here is a list of the graded assignments that have been given so far
1) The concept map containing the following words form the Word Den: scientific method, hypothesis, controlled experiment, control group, experimental group, independent variable, dependent variable. In completing this concept map, you must make sure that you not only include all of these terms, but explain how they are related to one another.

This assignment has already been graded at 10 points. If you were absentwhen it was given, please see me to receive it.

2) The variable grid. This was a ten point assignment where you were given several pretend experiments and asked to identify the independent, dependent, and control variable for each one. This was first assigned last Monday and Tuesday

3) The Challenge Questions. These were:

Part One- Pretend you are observing the effects of fertilizer runoff on the St. John's River. Identify the independent and dependent variables in this observation. Remember that even though you are just an observer and not actually doing an experiment, both of these variables are still present.

Part Two- This time, you (pretend) are designing and writing a controlled experiment based on the observations you made in Part One. For this, you must clearly identify the following items in detail:
- What problem are you trying to solve?
- What is your hypothesis?
- Experimental Procedure-Needs to be written as a step by step process. Be sure to include your control and experimental groups. Also include your independent (what you change), dependent (what happens because of what you change), and your control (anything you let stay the same).

Those are the assignments that have been given so far.