FON100LL Lesson 1 Lab: Lab Safety, Equipment, and the Scientific Method

Name:

Questions:

1. Think about a nutrition controversy or claim that you’ve recently read or heard about in the media, or a question that you have about nutrition. How would you evaluate that controversy or claim, or answer your question, using the steps of the scientific method? Explain what you’d do for each of the steps of the scientific method to evaluate this claim. (25 pts.)

Controversy, Claim, or Question:

Steps of the Scientific Method:

Observation

Hypothesis

Experiment

Conclusion

2. Assume that the “experiment” step of the evaluation you described in Question 1 involves the use of chemicals. Describe four lab safety rules you would implement, and explain why they’re applicable to your experiment. (20 pts.)

a. Keep Your work area tidy and clean.

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3. You’re making your favorite dish to serve at a family gathering. Describe the dish below and identify four “FAT TOM” food safety critical points you would take into consideration when preparing, cooking, and storing your dish to keep your family safe from food poisoning. Explain why you chose these four points. (25 pts.)

DISH:

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4. Consider all that you’ve learned about lab safety in this lesson and provide two examples for how you could apply this knowledge to your everyday life as a non scientist. Be sure to relate your experiences to specific lab safety procedures. (15 pts.)

5. Although you may not realize it, you use the steps of the scientific method in daily life to solve problems. Consider the following:

Part of your morning ritual is to fix coffee to have with your breakfast. You put coffee grounds and water into your coffee maker and press “start” so that the coffee is ready for you when you’re finished getting ready for work. You come back into the kitchen, and the coffee isn’t ready! What happened?

Explain how you’d figure out the problem using the steps of the scientific method. (15 pts.)

Submission

Complete the above questions in this Word document and submit them using the submission link in the Assessing Your Learning page of Lesson 1.