Video Questions: Week#1
Directions: View the following short videos and answer the associated questions. Attach this document with your answers to the journal site. Total Point value: 12 points. Please highlight your answers in another color.
Video #1: Questioning techniques in science
1. Can we ever prove a hypothesis to be true? Why or why not?
2. Why did the soldiers in the castle doubt where the coconuts came from?
Video #2: She's a Witch!
1. Based on their assumptions in their reasoning, would you vote that she is a witch? Why or why not ?
2. What was wrong with their reasoning and their experimental design?
Video #3: 17th Century Abiogenesis Theory
1. What was the prevalent belief in the 1600s with regard to life coming from nonlife?
2. What was wrong with the experimental design in the first experiment with wheat and dirty underwear?
3. How did Redi set up a good experimental design?
4. What was the purpose of each jar?
Video #4: Germ Theory of Disease
1. What is childbed fever?
2. What was Semmelweis's hypothesis as to why more women were dying of childbed fever under the doctor's care rather than the midwives?
3. Why were Semmelweis's ideas not accepted in 1846?
4. Why was Pasteur so concerned with finding out about disease transmission?
5. What industry was he working for?
6. Pasteur's experiment led to what theory?