Vocabulary
Tools
Scientific Method
Vocab 2
100
To ask and answer questions
What is inquiry?
100
measures length
What is ruler?
100
The first step in the scientific method Example: Why does it rain?
What is question?
100
To see what is different and what is the same
What is compare
200
To keep away from danger
What is safety?
200
measures temperature
What is a thermometer
200
Second step in the scientific method. Example: I think you have strep thoat.
What is a hypothesis?
200
to find something new
What is discover
300
To use your 5 sences to look at something more closely.
What is observe?
300
measures mass
What is a pan balance?
300
The third step in the scientific method. Example: Place two cups of water in the freezer and see which one freezes first.
What is an experiment?
300
To guess what will happen next
What is to predict?
400
To put things into groups
What is classify?
400
measures volume
What is measuring cup?
400
The fourth step in the scientific method. Example: Writing down when each cup of water froze.
What is collecting data?
400
to look for answers
What is to investigate?
500
information that you collect
What is data?
500
makes things bigger
What is a hand lens?
500
The last step in the scientific method. Example: The cup with salt water takes longer to freeze than the cup without salt water.
What is making a conclusion?
500
A person who studies the world around him or her
What is a scientist?
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