Why make notes and drawings?

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Why make notes and drawings?

• They are your personal record and a way to share
  your ideas and observations will others.

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Famous Visual Journalists
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, ViennaThe Great
Piece of Turf, 1503Albrecht Dürer (German,
14711528)Watercolor and gouache on paper 16
1/8 x 12 5/8 in. (41 x 32 cm)Image courtesy of
the Albertina, Wien
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Famous Visual Journalists
Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto) Studies for
the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated
Figure (verso), 1508-12 Made by Michelangelo
Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese, 1475 - 1564,
Rome)ItalianPurchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest,
1924 (24.197.2)
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Famous Visual Journalists
MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY/GRANGER
COLLECTION SAGE GROUSEA drawing of a sage grouse
from the winter of 1805-1806 with comments by
Lewis.
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Famous Visual Journalists
Artist Unknown, "Horse with Arrows," 17,000 B.C.,
prehistoric cave painting
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Famous Lab Journalists
Curies Lab Notebook
Shulgins Lab notebook
daVincis Lab Notebook
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The Scientific Method (OH TAC for everyday
living)
Hypothesize
Observe
Test and Analyze
Conclude
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The Scientific Method (OH TAC for everyday
living)
Observe! Discovery consists of seeing what
everyone else has seen and thinking what no one
else has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi as
displayed on the wall at the MBL
Hypothesize
Observe
Conclude
Test and Analyze
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The Scientific Method (OH TAC for everyday
living)

• An Hypothesis is
• a possible explanation
• a question or a
• a guess to explain something

Hypothesize
Observe
Test and Analyze
Conclude
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The Scientific Method (OH TAC for everyday
living)

• Test
• by further observation
• by experimentation with
• control setup
• experimental setup
• with only one variable!

Hypothesize
Observe
Conclude
Test and Analyze
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The Scientific Method (OH TAC for everyday
living)

• Analyze
• record data carefully
• sketches, notes, numbers
• organize data into patterns
• tables
• graphs
• diagrams
• drawings and photos
• discuss sources of error

Hypothesize
Observe
Conclude
Test and Analyze
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The Scientific Method (OH TAC for everyday
living)

• Conclude
• does the data support your guess (hypothesis)?
• why or why not?
• what can you conclude?

Hypothesize
Observe
Test and Analyze
Conclude
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The Scientific Method Again and Again and Again