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Franklin’s Experiment:
How Much Is True
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Know something about Franklin’s famous kite experiment.
Learn some words and expressions.
Cultivate spirit of scientific exploration
and critical thinking.
Teaching aims
Teaching procedures
Franklin’s Experiment:
How Much Is True
While-reading
Post-reading
Pre-reading
Homework
Pre-reading
Is the experiment true?
Who is he
He is Benjamin Franklin.
What made him famous
His Famous
Kite Experiment
While-reading
Para. 1 A. Why do scientists question accepted ideas
Para. 2 B. The effect of Franklin’s lightning experiment.
Para. 3 C. The introduction to Franklin’s lightning experiment.
Para. 4 D. Facts should be proved by experiments and research.
Para. 5 E. Franklin’s story may be fiction.
Para. 6 F. Not everything about the experiment is true.
Match the main ideas with the paragraphs.
n. 虚构的事
v. 质疑
v. 证明
Read para. 2 and fill in the experiment report.
Experiment Franklin’s kite experiment
Aim
Materials
Procedure
Conclusion
To know if __________________________________________
_______________.
A_____, a piece of _____, and a _________.
First, Franklin _____the kite with a piece of string ____ to it and
a metal key ______________the string.
Then, a flash of lightning_____the kite, and electricity _______ _________through the string to the key.
Finally, Franklin _______ the key, and _____ an electric shock.
Lightning was a form of electricity.
Task 1:
lightning was really produced by electricity or
kite
string
tied
raised
metal key
was attached to
hit
was
conducted
touched
got
be attached to...被固定到......上
conduct v. 传导(电、热)
tie...to...把......系在...上
something else
Experiment Franklin’s kite experiment
Procedure
First, Franklin _______the kite with a piece of string ____ to it and a metal key ______________the string.
Then, a flash of lightning_____the kite, and electricity ________________through the string to the key.
Finally, Franklin __________ the key, and _____ an electric shock.
tied
raised
was attached to
hit
was conducted
touched
got
Retell the procedure.
What are schoolchildren amazed by
Read para. 3 and answer the question.
Task 2:
amazed
More than one generation of schoolchildren has been amazed by his bravery and his scientific approach to looking for the truth.
People’s attitude towards the experiment:
1. “But scientists all agree that if Franklin had actually touched the
key, he would certainly have died from the electric shock.”
Read para. 4 and answer the following questions.
Task 3:
From the sentence, what can we know
Scientists has quetioned what realy happened. He didn't touch the key in the experiment.
question
People’s attitude towards the experiment:
Electricity was conducted through the string.
He got an electric shock.
He touched the key.
He raised the kite.
Lightning hit
the kite.
2. How much is true
Not 100% true
Critical thinking
批判性思维
Task 4:
Why do scientists question accepted ideas
A. To find what took place.
B. To prove what is true.
C. To establish the facts.
D. To inspire people to do scientific exploration.
求证事实
People have been more ____________ by Franklin’s spirit of scientific exploration. But in science, facts should be proved by ______________________, and we should not always believe everything we read or hear-even if it is a ______story.
experiemnts and research
great
inspired
Read para. 6 and fill in the blanks.
Task 5:
inspired
People’s attitude towards the experiment:
Post-reading
Retelling
New research suggests that the story of Franklin may be _______.
To prove if lightning was really produced by electricity or something else, Franklin did an experiment. He ______the kite with a piece of string ____to it. A metal key ______________ the string. A flash of lightning _____ the kite, and electricity _______________ through the string to the key. Franklin then _________the key with his finger and got an electric shock. This proved that lightning was a form of electricity.
fiction
was attached to
was conducted
raised
tied
hit
touched
More than one generation of schoolchildren has been amazed by his bravery and his scientific___________to looking for the truth. However, more than one scientist has_________ what really happened. And scientists often question accepted ideas because they want to _________ the facts.
Admittedly, fiction is often more interesting than the truth. But in science, facts should be proved by ________________________, and we should not always believe everything we read or hear - even if it is a great story.
experiments and research
approach
quetioned
establish
Great scientists in China
What qualities do you think a great scientist should have
creative
brave
critical
energetic
imaginative
confident
hard-working
careful
a great scientist
rigorous attidude towards science
critical thinking
Spirit of science
Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth.
实践是检验真理的唯一标准。
Homework
Learn about the story of Newton’s discovery and write a short essay to question it.
Newton’s discovery of gravity:
How much is true
Introduction
Main body
Conclusion
THANK YOU!