Question 1: What do you think the textbook means by your “scientific self”? When do you feel scientific?
I think that textbook means a few things by “scientific self.” I think that the textbook is telling you to look inside yourself and find your own scientific approach and don’t rely on others unless you need some help. It is important for you to find your scientific instincts and to develop them. The feelings and attitudes about science help to shape you and can help to make you a great teacher of science. Your attitude toward science is also connected to your personal beliefs and your sense of yourself as a science learner. This is what I think the textbook means by “scientific self”.
I feel scientific when I look at the stars at night and which stars form a constellation together. I also feel scientific when I plant a tree or plant vegetables in my garden at home. I feel scientific when I read a poem about nature or think about all the science that I have learned through all my years of school. I feel scientific when I do labs or read something that has something to do with medicine. I feel scientific when I do experiments. These are some of the things that make me feel scientific.
Question 2: Can you think of one of your own teachers whose positive or negative feelings about a subject influenced your own reactions?
My sixth grade teacher Mrs. Prebeck had positive feelings about a subject influenced my own reactions about science. She really made science fun by doing experiments and demonstrations. The plate tectonic demonstration, ph paper and acid and base experiment and the hot chocolate volcano experiment really made the subject of science in sixth grade really fun for me. These demonstrations made me want to learn science and enjoy science.
Question 3: If you made a drawing of a scientist while reading this chapter, think about it. What does it tell you about your attitude toward science?
I think that most scientists are white male nerds who hold instruments such as breakers, test tubes, and graduated cylinders based on the picture on page 43 in the textbook Science Stories by Jane Koch.
Question 4: Can you name two women or minority scientists? Can you describe their work?
The two women are Madame Cure and Virginia Apgar.
Madame Cure was a chemist and physicts. Madame Cure developed methods for separation of radium from radioactive residues. Madame Cure received many honorary science, medicine and law degrees. She was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903for the study into the spontaneous radiation. In 1911 she received a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work in radioactivity.
Virginia Apgar had a career path of diagnostic and therapeutic services: anesthesiology. She designed and introduced the Apgar Score. “Apgar Score was the first standardized method for evaluating a newborn’s transition to life outside the womb. She began studying obstetrical anesthesia—the effects of anesthesia given to a mother during labor on her newborn baby—where she made her greatest contribution to the field, the Apgar Score. This was the first standardized method for evaluating the newborn's transition to life outside the womb. "Five points—heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, reflex response, and color—are observed and given 0, 1, or 2 points. The points are then totaled to arrive at the baby's score." The score was presented in 1952 at a scientific meeting, and first published in 1953. Despite initial resistance, the score was eventually accepted and is now used throughout the world. Apgar first planned the score to be taken one minute after birth, as a guide to the need for resuscitation. Others began to take measurements at longer intervals, to evaluate how the baby had responded to any necessary resuscitation. Eventually, the one- and five-minute Apgar Score became standard.
Apgar went on to relate the score more closely to the effects of labor, delivery, and maternal anesthetics on the baby's condition. Colleagues Dr. Duncan Holaday and Dr. Stanley James helped her make these connections, providing new methods of measuring blood gases and blood levels of anesthesia, and contributing specialized knowledge in cardiology. Together, they were able to demonstrate that babies with low levels of blood oxygen and highly acidic blood had low Apgar Scores and that giving cyclopropane anesthesia to the mother was likely to result in an infant's low Apgar Score. Finally, the Collaborative Project, a twelve-institution study involving 17,221 babies, established that the Apgar Score, especially the five-minute score, can predict neonatal survival and neurological development.”[1]
Question 5: What opportunities do you have to explore nature? Describe them.
The opportunities that have to explore nature are through walking around campus and seeing the birds fly in the sky overhead. I also see the mountains with the snow in the distance by Aquinas Hall. I also see nature when I search on my computer through the search engine of Google images of different flowers. The snow piles on campus are another way to explore nature.
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