Tag: penicillin

  • Early Discoveries – CER

    Early Discoveries – CER

    Students who are just learning how to do CER’s (claim, evidence, reasoning) often struggle when they are required to develop their own claims and evidence statements. In this activity, students read stories about historical science, such as Redi’s experiment on meat and maggots and Louis Pasteur’s experiments with the s-shaped flask. The stories are short,…

  • Scientific Method in Action

    Scientific Method in Action

    This simple worksheet has two reading passages, similar to what students may see on state standardized science tests.  Students read a short description of a science experiment and must answer questions related to science methodology, such as identifying controls and variables and summarizing conclusions that can be drawn from the text. The two stories are…

  • How Can the Scientific Method Solve Real-World Problems?

    How Can the Scientific Method Solve Real-World Problems?

    Read short stories about how scientists used the scientific method to solve real problems, such as the discovery of penicillin and the cause of beriberi.