Homework - Lower Dauphin School District

							                      Homework: Week of August 29th
                       EVERYTHING IS DUE THURSDAY



                               Monday

 Go to Mrs. Fischl’s website and complete the student information
  survey.
      o How to get to Mrs. Fischl’s website:
            Go to www.ldsd.org
            Click on schools and choose “Lower Dauphin High
              School “
            Click on “Faculty”
            Click on “Fischl, Darby”
      o Find your class along the left hand side of the webpage
        (General Earth Science or Honors Earth Science). This is an
        assignment page, where you can access your homework.
      o Click on the “student information” assignment link
      o Click on “student information link”, fill in the form and then
        submit it.
 If you do not have access to the internet, please sign below and
  have your parents verify this by signing below as well.
      o I _______________________________ (your name), do not
        have computer access at home.
        Student Signature: __________________________

        Parent Signature: ____________________________
                      Homework: Week of August 29th
                       EVERYTHING IS DUE THURSDAY



                                Tuesday

 Register for your textbook online:
    o Go to www.pearsonsuccessnet.com (link is on my website)
    o Click Register
    o On the first screen, type your class access code above in the
       access code field:
           Period 1: 95159D5075F7353835D2
           Period 2: 92517818C71E4B292680
           Period 3: 641E09FC975596552870
           Period 4: 5F27EA1F9F770AFA70C3
           Period 8/9: 6500812CC3A5FF32FB37
           Period 11: 5717B9114B38BBC14AEA
    o Follow the instructions to register. Please DO NOT use your
       full name as your user name.

         Write your user name, exactly the way you typed it (it is case
         sensitive) here: ___________________________________

         Write your password here: __________________________
     o   At the end of the registration process, the SuccessNet login
         page appears.
     o   Log in by typing your user name and password.
     o   Enter the following Zip Code: 17036
     o   Choose: “Lower Dauphin High School”
     o   Click “Log In”
                                  Homework: Week of August 29th
                                   EVERYTHING IS DUE THURSDAY




                                          Wednesday
                                    TEST OF SCIENTIFIC LITERACY

Directions: Answer each question by choosing “TRUE” if what the sentence most normally means is
typically true; and “”False” if it is typically false.

Choose an item. 1.    Scientists usually make predictions as to how an experiment will turn out.

Choose an item. 2.    Research produces results that can change through further tests.

Choose an item. 3.    The scientific method is the only way to conduct scientific research.

Choose an item. 4.    Scientific theories are explanations and not facts.

Choose an item. 5.    In science, one must draw conclusions from observable and/or measurable
                      evidence.

Choose an item. 6.    All scientists will reach the same conclusion when interpreting the same
                      information.

Choose an item. 7.    In order to be scientific, one must conduct experiments.

Choose an item. 8.    Scientific theories only change when new information becomes available.

Choose an item. 9.    Scientists set up their experiments to produce particular types of data.

Choose an item. 10.   Science proves facts true in a way that is definitive and final.

Choose an item. 11.   An experiment can prove a theory.

Choose an item. 12.   Science is partly based on beliefs, assumptions, and the non-observable.

Choose an item. 13.   Imagination and creativity are used in many stages of scientific investigations.

Choose an item. 14.   Scientific theories are just hunches about how something works.

Choose an item. 15.   A scientific law is a theory that has been extensively and thoroughly confirmed.

Choose an item. 16.   Scientists’ education, background, opinions, disciplinary focus, and basic guiding
                      assumptions and philosophies influence their perception and interpretation of
                      the available data.

Choose an item. 17.   A scientific law will not change.
                                  Homework: Week of August 29th
                                   EVERYTHING IS DUE THURSDAY




Choose an item. 18.   An accepted scientific theory is an explanation that has been confirmed by
                      considerable evidence and has endured all attempts to disprove it.

Choose an item. 19.   A scientific law describes relationships among observable phenomena but does
                      not explain them.

Choose an item. 20.   Scientists create explanations, models, or theoretical ideas.

Choose an item. 21.   Scientists develop theories to guide further research.

Choose an item. 22.   Scientists accept the existence of theoretical ideas that have never been directly
                      observed.

Choose an item. 23.   Scientific laws are absolute or certain.