Basic activities 1. Read the following article: A boy was lost on a desert island, aban- doned by its former inhabitants. As it was cold, he looked for material to make a fire. Then he carried the things he found to his camp. He discovered that some of them burned but others did not. The boy wrote two lists, Things that burn: tree branches, broom- sticks, pencils, chair legs, flag poles, Things that don't burn: racks, marbles, pa- perweights, old plates. When the boy had burned nearly all the tree branches and broomsticks, he tried to find a regularity that would serve as a rule. Looking at his classification, he noticed an apparent relationship between the objects He thought of a possible ‘generalisation Perhaps cylindrical objects burn The next day he deliberately left his list at his camp. Guided by his rule this time, he returned with his arms full. He had three pieces of pipe, two plastic bottles and the axle of an old car. He did not bring a large cardboard box full of newspapers. During the long, cold night, the boy reached the following conclusions: Perhaps the cylindrical rule is unrelated to combustibility. However, the broomsticks, the tree branches and the bowling pins are cylindrical and they burn. He observed the list again and, after some reflection, proposed the following rule. Wooden objects burn. 4. Change the followin Decisively, he went to look for the wooden door and threw it on the fire. His satisfaction was tremendous. Then he thought Dry wood burns better than wet wood ‘Once wood burns, the residue does no! burn again. It is getting harder to find wood» ob. jects each day. This is worrying. | mus’ ~ok for other objects that burn. Tomorrow vill try walnut shells and some roots I disco. >. today. Chemistry: An Experimental Sci: (CHEMPr. Answer the following questions. 4) What was the boy's first hypothesis? b) What experiment did he do to discard his first hypothesis? ©) Do you think he used the scientific meth od? Explain your answer. ) What was his final hypothesis? 2. Indicate which of the f magnitudes: flavour, length. following properties bitterness, temperatu 3. Discuss with a classmate to decide if the f. lowing sentences are true or false: @) Alchemy is a branch of science. 5) A hypothesis is an unproven conjecture. ©) The scientific method is a cyclical method d) There are magnitudes which cannot be measured, units using conversion factors: a 2 ©) 20 mm tom. ©) 0.062 m’ to cm’, ©) 526 cm to dam. 9) 520 min toh, b) 85.2g tohg. ) 52.5 hm* to m? f) Shtos h) 8000 mm’ to cm’