Vocab terms
What is Science?
Study of the universe
What is the first step?
Ask a question
You should wear these over your eyes to protect them from spills
Goggles, Glasses or Protective eyewear
This hand held tool has a glass lens that makes tiny objects look much bigger.
Microscope or magnifying glass
Who can be a scientist?
Anyone who has a question.
What is a hypothesis?
A smart guess or an educated guess?
What is evidence
If there is a spill, a break, or an accident, this is the first person you tell.
Tell the teacher.
This is a tall, plastic or glass tube has lines on it to measure liquids exactly.
graduated cylinder
Scientists look at facts and evidence because scientific knowledge can change when they discover
New information
What is observation?
An investigation where scientist uses senses to learn about something.
What happens during analysis?
Look for patterns in evidence or compare data
What should be tied back in the lab?
Long hair
You use this to measure how heavy or light an object is.
Scale or Balance beam
Things that repeat and help scientists make connections between events.
Patterns
A special type of test that scientists do to find answers to a question.
experiment
What is a conclusion
The final step of the scientific method where you explain what you learned from your experiment.
What should you never mix without permission?
Chemicals
This tool has numbers on it and is used to measure how long or tall an object is.
ruler or measuring stick
To make sure their results are correct, scientists always do their experiments more than this many times
More than once.
What is an analysis?
A comparison of evidence
Make a qualitative observation about this classroom.
Answers vary. But cannot involve quantities.
If you don’t know what to do you should
Ask questions
This tool sits on a table and lets you see things that are too small for the human eye.
Microscope
Make a quantitative observation about this classroom.
Answers will vary but must involve a quantity of something.