Lab Safety Rules
You should do this before beginning any lab.
What is always read directions and listen to the teacher?
This is used to find the mass of an object.
What is a triple beam balance?
This is the step where a scientist notices something and asks a question about it.
What is an observation and question?
True or false: Mrs. Kauffman is the best teacher ever.
What is true?
The graph shows that 2 more students liked chocolate ice cream than vanilla ice cream.
What is a quantitative observation?
Your lab station should be kept this way at all times.
What is clean and tidy?
These are both used to measure volume.
What are beaker and graduated cylinder?
This is a testable prediction about the relationship between 2 or more variables.
What is a hypothesis?
This is the variable that happened because the scientist changed the independent variable. It is what is measured.
What is the dependent variable?
The shell felt smooth and was shiny.
What is a qualitative observation?
You should notify your teacher if this happens.
What is an accident?
This allows one to see small things more clearly.
What is a hand lens or magnifying glass?
This step involves setting up the test, including controlling variables to ensure a fair experiment.
What is planning and conducting a test?
This is what you keep the same in your groups and trials.
What is the constant?
This is a descriptive observation made using the 5 senses to understand qualities, characteristics, or behaviors of something.
What is a qualitative observation?
You should never do this in a lab setting. It isn't safe.
This is used to measure length.
What is a meter stick or ruler?
This involves recording what happened during the experiment, often using numbers.
What is data collection?
These are factors that are intentionally kept the same throughout an entire experiment to ensure a fair test and to prevent other influences from affecting the results.
What are controls?
This is a numerical measurement that involves numbers and units, providing objective data that can be counted or measured using tools.
What is a quantitative observations?
You should always do this and not sniff deeply.
What is waft?
This is used to measure the temperature of matter.
What is a thermometer?
This is the final step where you look at your data and decide if your hypothesis was supported or not.
What is a conclusion?
This is the variable that the scientist changes in an investigation and what is being tested.
What is the independent variable?
The plant's height in centimeters is 10 cm.
What is a quantatative observation?