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Chapter 1 · Period 1 of 3 · 40 min

Science Is Already Happening Around You

Recognise and describe scientific curiosity in everyday life · Hands-on Science

This is the chapter's opening move, so orient students to the idea that science begins with the curiosity they already practise. A common early error is that students describe what happened rather than the steps they took — prompt them specifically for the moment of guessing and the moment of checking. When the class list appears on the board, resist naming the steps formally yet; that formalisation is the next unit's work.

0-8The teacher opens by asking students to think quietly about a time they tried to figure something out — a pen that stopped working, food that spilled, a game that behaved unexpectedly — and to jot down what happened and what they did.
8-20Students write a short personal account (Activity 1.1) naming the problem, their initial guess, how they tested it, and what happened — the teacher circulates and prompts those who are stuck with a single guiding question.
20-32Pairs share their accounts and mark the steps their stories have in common, arriving at a rough shared list on a scrap of paper.
32-40The teacher facilitates a brief whole-class share-out, collects the common steps on the board, and names this pattern as the starting point for the chapter's journey.
Assessment

Competency (C-6.2). Formulate scientific questions and structure a process of inquiry by connecting the scientific method to familiar everyday problem-solving experiences.

Learning outcome. The student can describe a personal or observed everyday problem-solving episode and identify within it the moment of curiosity, an initial guess, and a checking action.

A student notices that her torch stops working. She thinks the battery might be dead, so she replaces the battery. The torch works again. Which part of this story is the 'initial guess'?

  • A She replaces the battery.
  • B The battery might be dead.
  • C The torch stops working.
  • D The torch works again.

B. The battery might be dead.

What each wrong option reveals

  • A The student identifies the test or checking action as the guess — they are conflating what they do to check with what they think might be true.
  • C The student confuses the triggering observation (torch stops working) with the guess — they have not yet separated noticing from proposing a cause.
  • D The student selects the result as the guess — they are reading backward from outcome to cause without distinguishing inference from evidence.
Chapter 1 · 3 periods of 40 min

Also saved as 2 periods.

  • 2The Pen That Stopped Writing — and Other Everyday Scientists
    Map everyday problem-solving onto the five steps of the scientific method
  • 3The Mystery of the Wilting Plant: A Scientific Method Case File
    Formulate an original scientific question and design a structured inquiry process
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