Science Literacy Below are listed the benchmarks, with page citations, that have been met during my usage of the Acid Rain Monitoring Project of EnviroNet. In addition to doing the actual monitoring, the students in my classroom also mapped location, created computer generated graphs, and wrote a standard lab report.
Scientists differ greatly in what phenomena they study and how they go about their work.
Although there is no fixed set of steps that all scientists follow, scientific investigations usually involve the collection of relevant evidence, the use of logical reasoning, and the application of imagination in devising hypotheses and explanations to make sense of the collected evidence. What people expect to observe often affects what they actually do observe. Strong beliefs about what should happen in particular circumstances can prevent them from detecting other results. Scientists know about this danger to objectivity and take steps to try and avoid it when designing investigations and examining data. One safeguard is to have different investigators conduct independent studies of the same questions.