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8                  Thinking Like a Scientist:




                                Why Don’t Some Popcorn Kernels





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                                                                        How do you find answers to questions about the world

                                                                        around us? Do you have what it takes to be a scientist?


                                                                        e.g. We can do experiments to find answers to questions

                                                                                 we might have about the world around us. I’m not

                                                                                 patient enough to repeat experiments several times, so

                                                                                 I probably wouldn’t make a good scientist.




                                                                         BIG IDEA


                                                                        Every day, we observe a lot of things around us. These


                                                                        observations can lead to questions. We can find answers to
                                                                        them by using the scientific method.






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