“Emily’s Hands-On Science Experiment” Unit 3, Lesson 4 Mystery to Medicine

1. “Emily’s Hands-On Science Experiment” Unit 3, Lesson 4Mystery to Medicine

2. “Emily’s Hands-On Science Experiment”Word Knowledge • calculator • protector • professor • editor These words have the suffix –or.

3. In these words the –y makes the /i/ sound. • modify • theory • mysterious

4. These words have five to six syllables. • experimentation • investigation • personality

5. These words contain the /s/ sound spelled ce. • existence • conceive • balance • slice • process

6. Identify the contraction in the sentence. • She doesn’t carry around a calculator.

7. What verb in the sentence can also be a noun? • The theory is that hands can sense an energy field.

8. This sentence is rhetorical. • Emily asked, “Why not do a scientific investigation?”

9. Which word has the /s/ sound spelled ce? • Dinosaurs are no longer in existence.

10. Vocabulary • controversial • practitioner • asthma • skeptic • significant

11. controversial-use context clues • It is controversial science, too. • Protesters gathered outside the theater where the controversial movie was being shown. controversial – something that causes disagreements

12. practitioners • Instead, therapeutic touch practitioners hold their hands several inches above the patient’s body and move the hands back and forth. • The yoga practitioners meet in the gym to do their exercises. practitioners-people who perform a certain skill, for example, a doctor is a practitioner of medicine

13. asthma • Touch therapists claim they can treat cancer, ease asthma, and reduce pain and nausea, among other things. • The medicine I take for asthma helps me breathe better. asthma – a disease that makes it difficult to breathe and causes wheezing and coughing

14. skeptics • “My parents are skeptics, but I wanted to see for myself,” said Emily. • The skeptics didn’t think it was possible for Nick to win the election. skeptic – people who have doubts about something

15. significant • Though Emily’s experiment was a significant study, more work must be done to back up her findings. • Scientists made a significant discovery when they found a cure for the disease. significant - important

16. Vocabulary Review • controversial – something that causes disagreements • practitioners – people who perform a certain skill • asthma – a disease that makes it difficult to breathe and causes wheezing and coughing • skeptics – people who have doubts about something • significant - important

17. Vocabulary Quiz skeptic asthma controversial practitioner significant skeptic __________ – people who have doubts about something _________ – people who perform a certain skill _________- important _________ – something that causes disagreements _________ – a disease that makes it difficult to breathe and causes wheezing and coughing practitioner significant controversial asthma