Science Skills
Scientific Thinking
7 skills continued
Scientific Thinking
Experiments
100
A way of learning about the natural world
What is Science
100
a decision based on evidence
What is objective
100
I believe that in the book.....John will go off to college in the next chapter
What is prediction
100
the way you are brought up affects the way you think
What is cultural bias
100
This begins the process of an experiment--I wonder.....
What is questioning
200
Observing
What is using one or more of your senses to gather information
200
the sense of right vs. wrong
What is ethics
200
There are 6 students with blue shirts, 8 students with white shirts, and 5 students with red shirts
What is Classifying
200
accepting of new ideas
What is open-mindedness
200
facts, figures and evidence gathered during an experiment
What is data
300
inferring, observing, classifying, predicting, evaluating, making models, conducting scientific investigations
What are the 7 skills of science
300
a decision made with your personal feelings
What is subjective
300
a representation of data---a chart, a graph, a picture
What is Making Models
300
a mistake in the design of an experiment that makes the results unreliable
What is experimental bias
300
a summary of what you learned from an experiment
What is conclusion
400
The bird is blue and there are seven students with shoes
What is qualitative and quantitative observations
400
a person's likes and dislikes affect how you think about something
What is personal bias
400
comparing observations and data and making a conclusion about them
What is Evaluating
400
a way to decide something by starting with a rule and testing it out
What is deductive reasoning
400
a possible answer to a scientific question
What is hypothesis
500
a fancy word for experiments
What is scientific investigation
500
this prevents scientists from accepting new ideas without enough evidence
What is skepticism
500
Inferences are facts
What is false
500
this is based on an ever-growing collection of facts about the natural world, but it changes with new evidence or interpretations
What is scientific knowledge
500
the only variable that changes in an experiment
What is independent
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