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Website: https://student.societyforscience.org/sciencenews-students
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As you already know, scientists publish the results (the findings) of their work as articles in
scientific magazines (just like the article you have been assigned). This activity will ask you to
read and review the article, and answer few questions.

Consider the following questions/tasks:

1. What is the question the experiment or the research presented was trying to answer (in
other words, what is the topic of research)?
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2. What materials were needed to complete the research?
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3. Were controls and variables used? Explain.
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4. Is this experiment/research valid? Justify your answer. (This means you have to evaluate
the uncertainties or validity of scientific conclusions using an understanding of sources of
measurement error, the challenges of controlling variables, accuracy of data analysis,
logic of argument, logic of experimental design, and/or the dependence on underlying
assumptions)
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5. What would you conclude from this experiment/research?

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6. Evaluate the scientific accuracy and significance of the information presented in the
article.
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7. Evaluate future career and occupational prospects of engineering/science/technology
related to the topic of the research in your article.
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