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An Overview of the Natural Sciences

 



Aims & Objectives:
  • make connections between a critical approach to the construction of knowledge, the academic disciplines and the wider world
  • examine how academic disciplines/areas of knowledge generate and shape knowledge
  • understand that knowledge brings responsibility which leads to commitment and action.

Essential Question:
  1. What methods, assumptions, and approaches distinguish the natural sciences as an area of knowledge?
Agenda:
Ongoing & Upcoming:
  • Thursday: our FIRST EVER CORE THURSDAY.  Come prepared to work on Extended Essay:
    • Continue research & writing
    • Contact EE Supervisor to arrange first formal reflection session
  • 2000-word draft (with 10 sources cited) due Sunday, 4/4
    • Remember, this is a process checkpoint--if you are DOING the work, it should SHOW in this draft
    • Begin moving some of your thinking around to give your essay some shape.
      • Create Tentative HEADINGS for your sections
      • this will FORCE YOU to begin to think in terms of BIG IDEAS and THEMES
      • Sort your writing, notes, etc., into the headings which they seem to fit
      • Start thinking about WHERE YOU ARE HEADED, and what you need to know, do, or understand in order to GET THERE.
  • After Spring Break:
    • The (Natural) Laws of Life Presentation
    • Collaborative Text-based Socratic Seminar
    • Shared Text?


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