What is Science?
Ancient Observers
Greek Genius
Dark Ages to Renaissance
Modern Reality Boom
100

What is Science the study of?

What is the Natural world?

100

  Which ancient civilization aligned pyramids with the North Star?

What is the Egyptians?

100

What type of question did Greek scientists begin asking?

What is “why”?

100

What science-like activity tried to turn lead into gold?

What is Alchemy?

100

Which scientist discovered gravity and invented calculus?

Who is Isaac Newton?

200

Name one tool or method scientists use to study the world.

What is observation or experiment?

200

This civilization invented gunpowder by accident.

What is the Chinese?

200

Who believed heavier objects fall faster (but was wrong)?

Who is Aristotle?

200

Why did science slow down during the Dark Ages?

What is government/culture didn’t support it?

200

What tool do modern scientists heavily rely on, besides experiments?

What is technology?

300

Science is a _______ effort across generations.

What is a Team Effort?

300

What number base system did the Sumerians create (we still use it for seconds and minutes!)?

What is Base 60?

300

What kind of guess do scientists make that can be tested?

What is a hypothesis?

300

What invention helped spread scientific ideas during the Renaissance?

What is the printing press?

300

In what century did science start using tools, teams, and advanced technology?

What is the 19th century?

400

What are scientists trying to uncover when they do experiments?

What are patterns or laws?

400

True or False: Early civilizations performed experiments or form scientific laws?

What is False?

400

What false idea said that life could come from nonliving things?

What is spontaneous generation?

400

Who said the Earth moves around the Sun and was put under house arrest?

Who is Galileo?

400

What can cause two scientists to look at the same data but reach different conclusions?

What is Worldview?

500

What can influence how scientists interpret results, even with the same data?

What is their worldview or beliefs?

500

Name two natural things ancient civilizations carefully observed.

What are stars, weather, planets, gravity, or seasons?

500

What’s one lesson we learned from spontaneous generation being wrong?

What is “don’t believe it just because a smart person said it”?

500

What worldview encouraged Renaissance scientists to study nature logically and orderly?

What is the Christian worldview?

500

What major discovery about human biology was first photographed in 1952?

What is DNA?

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