Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Key Points
Solinsky Favorites
100
Using one or more of your senses to gather information.
What is observing?
100
Having an attitude of doubt.
What is skepticism?
100
A possible answer to a scientific question.
What is a hypothesis?
100
The six skills scientists use to study the world.
What are observing, inferring, predicting, classifying, evaluating, and making models?
100
The best college football team to watch Saturdays in the Fall.
What is Notre Dame?
200
An observation that deals with numbers or amounts.
What is a quantitative observation?
200
The rules that enable people to know right from wrong.
What are ethics?
200
Factors that can change in an experiment.
What are variables?
200
Requires a logical way of thinking based on gathering and evaluating evidence.
What is scientific reasoning?
200
The best Major League Baseball team.
Who are the San Francisco Giants?
300
A scientist who studied wild chimpanzees.
Who is Jane Goodall?
300
A mistake in the design of an experiment making a particular result more likely.
What is experimental bias?
300
The variable that is purposely changed to test a hypothesis.
What is the manipulated variable?
300
The diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on the evidence they gather.
What is scientific inquiry?
300
What Ms. Solinsky loves to give classes that aren't paying attention to the material taught in class.
What are pop quizzes?
400
An oberservation that deals with descriptions.
What is a qualitative observation?
400
Making decisions and drawing conclusions based on available evidence.
What is being objective?
400
An experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time.
What is a controlled experiment?
400
What an experiment must follow for its results to be valid.
What are sound scientific principals?
400
The only Star Wars movie worth watching.
What is the Force Awakens?
500
Making a statement or claim about what will happen in the future based on past experiences.
What is predicting?
500
A way to explain things by starting with a general idea and then applying the idea to a specific observation.
What is deductive reasoning?
500
A well tested explanation for a wide range of observations and experimental results.
What is a scientific theory?
500
A statement that describes what scientists expect to happen every time under a particular set of conditions.
What is scientific law?
500
The best brand of clothing, obviously.
What is Nike?
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