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We hypothesize that this video will increase your knowledge of the scientific method and flying cats. We really pulled out all the stops on this one.
Transcript
- 00:05
[Dino and Coop singing]
- 00:13
If you were to imagine a world without science, what might it look like? [Two cavemen]
- 00:17
Well, there'd be no science classrooms...
- 00:19
And definitely no mad scientists...
- 00:21
And we'd also be lacking iPads, running shoes, candy that pops in your mouth, and other far [Pictures of the things appear]
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- 00:26
less important things, like modern medicine and electricity. [Doctors looking at a scan]
- 00:29
So yeah, the world would be a pretty different place without science.
- 00:32
And who do we have to thank for that?
- 00:34
Clowns!
- 00:35
What?
- 00:35
Ugh, no.
- 00:36
Who writes these videos…? [Clown with a toy balloon appears]
- 00:38
Let's try again.
- 00:39
And who do we have to thank for that?
- 00:41
Scientists!
- 00:42
And the scientific method.
- 00:44
That's better.
- 00:45
Let's start with some famous scientists…take, for instance, Thomas Edison. [Picture of Edison]
- 00:50
Tommy here invented the light bulb, the record player, and the motion picture camera. [Pictures of his inventions]
- 00:53
Now imagine a world without indoor lighting, music, or movies.
- 00:57
What kind of a world would that be? [Guy reading a book next to a fire that goes out]
- 01:00
And how about Henry Ford of the Ford Motor Corp, who invented the assembly line?
- 01:04
Without him, cars would take ages to build by hand, and we'd probably have a lot less [Footage of the production line]
- 01:08
of them.
- 01:09
Imagine a world with way less cars!
- 01:11
Why, that world would just be... well,
- 01:14
probably…greener…and with better smelling air… [Woman dancing in a field of flowers]
- 01:17
But hey, assembly lines are still great!
- 01:19
Alexander Graham Bell is another important scientist – after all, he did invent the telephone.
- 01:24
And a world without telephones is a world without mothers being able to nag their kids
- 01:28
all the time while they're away at college.
- 01:29
We wouldn't dream of taking that away from them. [Kid looks annoyed]
- 01:32
These scientists, and many, many more, used something called the scientific method to
- 01:36
conduct their experiments.
- 01:38
And this comes in six steps.
- 01:40
Step number one?
- 01:41
Make observations! [Coop pointing at a blackboard]
- 01:42
This is your starting step, where you look out into the world and try to figure out what [Kid looking at a cheeseburger]
- 01:46
it is you think is worth studying.
- 01:48
Step two is deciding what questions still need to be answered about whatever it is you've
- 01:52
decided is worth studying.
- 01:54
Once you've come up with a question worth asking, the next step is to make a prediction
- 01:57
about the outcome of your experiment that aims to answer that question.
- 02:01
Now that you've made your prediction, it's time to design and conduct your experiment. [Kid thinking about putting peanut butter on the cheesebuger]
- 02:05
This could mean combining chemicals in a lab, attempting to build a cool new kind of video [Explosion goes off in a science lab]
- 02:09
game controller, trying to make wings to allow your cat to fly, or even blending up something [Cat flying]
- 02:13
that definitely should not be blended. [Diet Coke can explodes in a blender]
- 02:15
After you've conducted your experiment, the next step of the scientific method is to analyze
- 02:19
the results.
- 02:20
This is where the scientist looks at exactly what happened during his or her experiment
- 02:24
and meticulously records all of the details. [Kid taking notes about the peanut butter cheeseburger]
- 02:28
And last but not least, it's conclusion time.
- 02:30
Developing conclusions based on the analyzed data is how we answer our questions from earlier. [Kid dancing in excitement about peanut butter]
- 02:35
By following these six steps, scientists have been able to turn our society into what it
- 02:39
is today.
- 02:40
And that means it's up to you to keep making cool scientific advancements! [Kid flying his cat around on a drone]
- 02:44
We're looking forward to flying cats in the near future…
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