Activity 1: REMEMBER: The main idea of a stary is what the whola story is mostly about. Facts and details are small pieces of information that make the story more interesting As you read this story, think about what the whole story is mostly about in arcent times people is to explain the world around them based on wh They saw People in ancient Times aww f the sun care up from one side of the weth, moved scross the way, and want cown on the other side Ras on this observation, they believed that the sun travels around the earth. Guing directly from observation to conclusion is called non-scientific thinking. Here is an example of non-scientific thinking Maybe you had a sick stomach, ada a candy bee An urber, you observed that you fal much baller. You might aches that it was the candy bar that make you feed heller. F there are other possible explanations for the observation. Maybe you had taken some medicine an hour earlier, and it took a while to work Maybe enough time hadi passed and you would have felt better without eating the candy bar. Nor-scientific thinking happens all the ime. The scientific method is a way of thinking that helps you to avoid drawing incorrect conclusions. It helps you to avoid non-scentric thinking. It reminds you to treat your fret conclusion as one of several possible conclusions. It reminds you to gather evidence to support your conclusion. The five steps in the scientific method begin by questioring an observation. and and with a condusion that is based on evidencs Step 1 in the scientific method is to ask a question about your observation, such as What makes a sck stomach feel beter? Step 2 is to stane a poss ble answer to the question, or a hypothesis. such as. "A candy bar makes a sick stomach feel better. Step 3 is to tes: the hypothesis. This can be done in many different ways. You could wat until you have a sick stomach again, eat a candy bar and see what happens. You could ask a lot of people if eating a cancy har had aver mada a sick stomach faal better. Figuring out how to last a hypothesis is what makas scianos chalanging. Step 4 is to think about the findings-think about what happened when you tassed the hypothesis Stap 5 is to draw a condusion-and share it with the rest of the world. Armar 1. What is this whole story musly about? A. Geing cineety fram observation to conclusion is called non-scientific thinking. R. The scientific method is a way of thinking that helps you to acid drawing incomect conclusions. C. Non scienthe thinking happens all the time 2. Which of these is a smal place of information from the story that makes the story more interesting? A. People in ancient times believed that the sun travels around the earth. B. People in ancient smas knew that the earth was mund. C. People in ancient times didn't try to explain the world around them ​