Monday, December 3, 2012

Science Analogies

What is an analogy ? 

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Why do you think scientist use analogies to explain science?  

51 comments:

  1. To make it easier to understand for little kids.

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  2. An analogy is when you compare one circumstance to another. These are used in science so it's easier to understand for everyone.

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    1. An example of an analogy in science is when they compared the nucleus in a cell to the manager in a store.

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  3. I think scientists use analogies to explain science so people can understand it better.

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  4. something that is equal to

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  5. Scientists use analogy to explain stuff more simply. An analogy is something equal.

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  6. its something that is a equal to the other

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  7. Something that is the same. I think scientists use analogies because, it is easier to understand.

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  8. Scientists can use analogies to explain science in many ways. They can use them to explain to little kids, or big adults.

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  9. Scientist use analogies so they can explain experiments better .

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  10. it helps kids and scientist discover things.

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  11. it helps people discover thing-a-magigs

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  12. Analogy is finding similarities between two things. Scientist use analogy to compare sciency things with stuff in real life. Like how they compare a factory with a cell.

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    1. Well... not exactly "real life" more like.. the outside world.....

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  13. its compreing things

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  14. I think analogy is something that scientists use to help some people undertans the things they say a little better

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  15. scientist could use analagies to compare cells and stuff like that, that is sciency

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  16. To help define their discoveries.

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  17. so they can define their discoveries

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  18. Something that is the same. I think scientists use analogies because, it is easier to understand.

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  19. Something that is the same. I think scientists use analogies because, it is easier to understand.


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  20. Scientist use analogy to compare 2 different object.That's how scientist use anlogy

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  21. cell is to body as heart is to life

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  22. It helps people Discover things????

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  23. Analogy is a comparison between two things.
    Scientists use analogies to explain to people who don't understand as well.

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  24. It helps scientists discover things.

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  25. Because it the scientist language!!! :)

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  26. We learned about analogies in GT.
    An analogy is a comparison a between two separate things.
    Scientists can use an analogy to explain cells. A cell is like a factory because of all of it's parts. Some of the parts are like the parts of a factory. The manager is like a nucleus. A golgi body is like the packaging and shipping area.

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  27. To compare things and make it easier for the average Zach to understand.

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  28. To compare things to other things

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  29. Scientists use analogies to make the concept easier to understand.

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  30. An analogy compares two things.
    Scientists use analogies to explain things.

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  31. A analogy thingy is comparing two things. People tat are smart like Journey and scientists use analogies to show things.

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  32. cause it makes it funner

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  33. An analogy is a comparison of certain similarities between things which are otherwise unlike.

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  34. An analogy is a comparison between 2 things

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  35. An analogy is comparing one thing to another thing.

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  36. An analogy is something that compares two things.
    Scientists analogies to explain things easier to understand.

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  37. An analogy is a comparison between two pairs of two things. I think scientists use analogies to explain science so they can explain things that aren't as easy to understand.

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  38. an analogy is something that compares two things.

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  39. Analogy is :a comparison of different similarities between things which are unalike.

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  40. an analogy is to compare two things that have something similarities.

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  41. An analogy is something when you compare two things to each other, like father to son, or mother to daughter.

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  42. It is easier to learn. Also it is another easier way to learn some thing new.

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  43. An analogy is when you compare 2 things to other things.

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  44. I think scientists use analogies to compare things to other and to help people understand things.

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  45. A analogy is when you can compare two things. Then to compare other things as well.
    Beacause it was easier to compare things.

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