Physical Science Essential Question: How can the scientific process be used to help us investigate and understand natural phenomena? Elaborate: Challenge students to pretend they are on the scientific journey to develop a vaccine to stop the zombie apocalypse and they need to design an experiment as a result of working in a laboratory. Ask the students to write 2-3 paragraphs describing what they would test and why might this be important in science and the real world. They might need to include the following terms: Experimental design
Test variable
•Outcome
•Control variable
•Hypothesis
•Testable
•Graphs and charts