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    1. The document describes a scientific process activity that involves investigating unusual absences at four middle schools. Students are asked to form testable questions and analyze attendance data from the schools. 2. In the second part of the activity, students continue the investigation by interviewing parents and examining school event calendars. They analyze the evidence to develop explanations for why band members at two schools had higher absence rates. 3. Students are asked to record their questions, evidence, analyses and form new questions to continue the health investigation. The activity guides students through the scientific process of question formation, data collection, analysis and developing new avenues for inquiry.

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    1. The document describes a scientific process activity that involves investigating unusual absences at four middle schools. Students are asked to form testable questions and analyze attendance data from the schools. 2. In the second part of the activity, students continue the investigation by interviewing parents and examining school event calendars. They analyze the evidence to develop explanations for why band members at two schools had higher absence rates. 3. Students are asked to record their questions, evidence, analyses and form new questions to continue the health investigation. The activity guides students through the scientific process of question formation, data collection, analysis and developing new avenues for inquiry.

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    1. The document describes a scientific process activity that involves investigating unusual absences at four middle schools. Students are asked to form testable questions and analyze attendance data from the schools. 2. In the second part of the activity, students continue the investigation by interviewing parents and examining school event calendars. They analyze the evidence to develop explanations for why band members at two schools had higher absence rates. 3. Students are asked to record their questions, evidence, analyses and form new questions to continue the health investigation. The activity guides students through the scientific process of question formation, data collection, analysis and developing new avenues for inquiry.

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    Scientific Process Activity

    Activity 1: Unusual Absences


    1. Go the class website sciencejones8.weebly.com and click on Week 1 under the 1st
    Quarter tab. Scroll down and find the section titled Scientific Process Activity. Click
    the link that says Activity Website.
    2. This will take you to the website we will be using for this activity. Click on the link titled
    Activity 1 Unusual Absences. The link will take you to the home page for a fictitious
    community health department.
    3. Click the link on this page for You have (1) New Message and read the e-mail message
    from the director of the health department.
    4. After you have read the email message from the director and the attached letter from
    Principal Parsons, discuss what testable questions you could ask to begin an
    investigation. After you come up with a couple, record your questions on the
    Investigative Report Form. When thinking of questions, make sure they are questions that
    will help you determine whether school absences indicate a health problem.
    5. After you have developed your testable questions, return to the directors email and click
    on the link to the school districts Web site. Here you will be able to access the attendance
    data for the communitys four middle schools.
    6. Once you have viewed the attendance data, you will need to export the data to the health
    department Web site where the data can be displayed in graphic form. To export the data,
    click the Export Data button and type cohd.org into the Export Destination box.
    7. You now have access to the Data Analysis section of the health departments Web site.
    If you click View Data, you will see the same data tables that are on the school
    districts Web site. If you click Create Graphs, you will be given a list of graphs to
    choose from. You can view up to four graphs at a time to compare them. While selecting
    you graphs, you should be looking for ones that help you make comparisons and answer
    your testable questions. Make sure to note that not all of the graphs are in the same scale
    so you should take this into consideration.
    8. After you have selected graphs that you best think will help you answer your testable
    questions, record which graphs you chose under the Evidence Collected section of your
    Investigative Report Form.
    9. Now you will analyze the data you have viewed under the Analysis of Evidence
    Collected section of your form. Here you should think about what the data might mean
    and possibly attempt to answer some of your testable questions.
    10. In the Next Questions section your form, you should begin to think about other
    questions that may have come up while looking through the data and record some of
    these questions and/or describe where your investigation should go next.

    Activity 2 Whats the Cause?


    1. Go the class website sciencejones8.weebly.com and click on Week 1 under the 1st
    Quarter tab. Scroll down and find the section titled Scientific Process Activity. Click
    the link that says Activity Website.
    2. This will take you to the website we will be using for this activity. Click on the link titled
    Activity 2 Whats the Cause? You will be continuing your investigation into the
    school absences among band members at Truman and Jackson middle schools.
    3. Before beginning, record some of the testable questions that you came up with at the end
    of the previous activity.
    4. After you have recoded your questions, click on the new email message that you have to
    read. After reading the email, click the link to the tables that list the results of interviews
    with students parents. While reading the interviews, record some of the conclusions that
    can be drawn under the Evidence Collection section of your form.
    5. Next click on the link to the calendars of school events. While you are viewing these,
    remember that you are looking for evidence that will help you develop better explanation
    of the health problem. Think about how illnesses are spread. Compare the calendars and
    record some of your conclusions on your form.
    6. In the Analysis and Explanation of Evidence Section, analyze your findings and try to
    answer some of the testable questions that you came up with at the beginning of the
    activity.
    7. Write down some possible next questions that you have after going through this activity
    in the last section of your handout.

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