SKILLS
SIMPLISTIC TERMS
VOCABULARY
METHOD
DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH
SKILLS
DIFFICULT TERMS
100

Science process skill that involves using your 5 senses

What is OBSERVATION?

100

Variable that can be changed during and experiment


What is Independent Variable?

100

This is the first step in the Scientific Method

What is Recognize the problem?

100
Descriptive Research is based mostly on ____________.
What is Observations?
100

Anticipating consequences of a new or changed situation using past experiences and observation.

What is Predicting?

200

Science process skill that involves grouping objects or events according to their properties

What is CLASSIFYING?

200
Ways to solve problems that can include step by step plans, making models, and carefully thought-out experiments
What is Scientific Method?
200

In the Scientific Method, proposing an explanation based on observations would not be hyperbole

What is Form a Hypothesis?

200
The first step in solving problems using Descriptive Research
What is State the Research Objective?
200

Investigating, manipulating materials, and testing hypotheses to determine a result.

What is Experimenting?

300

This science process skill can be simply stated as "Catch the hints!"

What is Inferring?

300
Using critical thinking skills to find solutions
What is Solving Problems?
300

Investigating and/or manipulating materials and testing your hypothesis to determine a result.

What is Experimenting?

300
How will you carry out your investigation? What steps will you use? How will the data be recorded or analyzed? How will your research design answer the question? These are a few questions you must ask yourself in the 2nd stage of Descriptive Research
What is Describe the Research Design?
300
Using ideas, processes, or skills in new situations.
What is Applying?
400
Variable that stays the same during and experiment
What is Constant?
400

Studying data to carefully identify relationships among key elements

What is Analyzing?

400

When scientist expect a certain result before they run their experiment

What is Bias?

400
Expressing thoughts that reveal originality, speculation, imagination, personal perspective, flexibility in thinking, invention or creativity.
What is Generating Ideas?
500
Critical thinking skill that involves breaking down information to main ideas then figuring out what to do with it.
What is Synthesizing?
500

Sample that is treated like other experimental groups except that the independent variable is not applied to it

What is The Control Group?

500

Making sense of the data collected and analyzed, bringing your experiment to finality

What is Drawing a Conclusion?

500
Descriptive Research is used to solve a scientific problem when this more common research design would be impossible to perform
What is Experiments?
500
Representing the "real world" in order to understand the larger process or phenomenon.
What is Making and using Models?
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