A Clinical Trial How do we know medicine is safe?

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A Clinical TrialHow do we know medicine is safe?

• 9-12-13

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9-12-13 Bell Work

• Write the following on page 15 of your journal.
• We take medicine when we are sick.
• How do we know it is safe?
• How do our parents know it is safe?

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Daily Review

• What is the second step of the scientific method?

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9-12-13 Objective

• I will apply my knowledge of the scientific
  method to a clinical trial.
• HW Write up a lab using the scientific method
  and the clinical trial we did today.

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• What is a clinical trial?

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Vocabulary

• Write in your dictionary section.
• Clinic-A place you go to if you are sick.
• Clinical Trial-A study usually done with medicine
  to see if it works and is harmful to humans.

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Turn to page

• A-11 in your science book.

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Notes section page 13

• Clinical Trials are a good way for scientists to
  collect important information. (like Dr. G. did
  with Pellagra)
• People participate in Clinical Trials for
  different reasons, like money, to improve their
  health, to help scientists

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• Write up a lab report for our Clinical Trial.

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• Question-
• Will the medicine work?
• Research-
• Waft smell and observe color
• Hypothesis
• If the pink drink tastes better than the yellow
  drink then my headache will go away because the
  medicine worked.

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• Take our medicine
• Record our findings

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Come up with a lab report of the experiment you
just did.

• Question-Will the medicine work?
• Research-Smelled, observed
• Hypothesis-If the pink drink tastes better than
  the yellow drink then my headache will go away
  because the medicine worked.
• Experiment- Write the steps you took.
• Data- Write down the data you collected.
  (hint-your table)
• Conclusion- Write if the medicine worked or did
  not work and include your data.

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Out Questions

• What is a clinical trial?
• Why do you think we did it today?

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Long term memory review

• What is one way you solve problems?