Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Models

The word model has many meanings in the English Language. Models which are replicas of the real thing are useful in Science. They will be very useful when we are talking about atoms in our next unit on Chemistry. Today in class we learned that there are good models and bad models. What makes something a good model? Let's looks at these two models of a car:




Homework: Look through Chapter four (pp 170-210) in your textbook. List on a separate piece of binder paper any examples of models that you see.