Concept to Concept
What is the relationship between these ideas?
Goal:
Goal:
What do you need to do when you read scientific information? To follow a science writer's line of thinking, you have to see the relationships between the concepts that are examined. That is, you have to see how the concepts are connected to each other. Think of concepts as the building blocks of scientific information.
What do related concepts look like? See if you can think of two concepts related to each topic in this slideshow. Try to imagine what questions a scientific article might answer about the two concepts. First, think of your own concepts and questions. Then, click the Show Me button on each slide to compare your ideas to the ones given. Click the arrow to move to the next slide.
What concepts are included in this topic? How are the concepts related?
Butterflies
Concepts: flight and insect bodies
How the concepts relate: What is needed for flight to happen, and how are insect bodies built to meet these requirements?
What concepts are included in this topic? How are the concepts related?
Baking
Concepts: heat and chemical reactions
How the concepts relate: How does heat affect the chemicals inside bread ingredients during baking?
What concepts are included in this topic? How are the concepts related?
BMX Bike Stunts
Concepts: gravity and acceleration (speed)
How the concepts relate: How does speed help resist gravity so that a bike can hover in the air?
What concepts are included in this topic? How are the concepts related?
Electric Cars
Concepts: electricity and motion
How the concepts relate: How does electricity make a car move?
What concepts are included in this topic? How are the concepts related?
Dinosaurs
Concepts: fossils and predators vs. prey
How the concepts relate: What can fossils tell us about how dinosaurs lived?