"The Scientific Method" Please respond to the following:

Welcome to our first weekly discussion. Class discussions are mandatory and graded. Each discussion is worth 20 points. To get full credit for your discussion make sure you have completed all the following before Monday at 9am EST:

1. Respond completely to ALL the discussion points below

2. Respond meaningfully to two posts of other students

This week's topic: The Scientific Method

Step 1- watch the following:

• "The Scientific Method" under Instructor Insights Week 1 (or use the following link: )
• "The Scientific Method” (3 min 15 sec) under the Scientific Method terms section of the Science Corner. You can also view the video at http://www.ket.org/education/video/kgedu/kgedu_000005.htm.

Step 2- Respond to the following:

• Describe each step of the scientific method.
• Discuss the importance of reproducibility, and peer review in the process of scientific inquiriy.

Step 3- Independent research:

• Find an online article about a scientific development that is of interest to you
• Show (in your post) how the scientists applied the steps of the scientific method in their work
• Be sure to include a link to the article