This is what scientist do to answer questions about the natural world.
What are conduct investigations?
Scientific investigations begin with this.
What is a question?
This is the study of the natural world through investigation and observation.
What is science?
This is an investigation where are conditions are controlled and tests a hypothesis.
What is an experiment?
This is the scientific tool scientist would use to find the degrees Celsius Lake Eric is on average during the month of January.
What is a thermometer?
Sara made a list of how two animals were similar and different. This is the skill she used.
What is comparing?
In science, this is the gathering of information with our senses by watching, listening, smelling, and touching.
What is observational testing?
This was the length of the shortest baby mouse.
What is 11mm?
This is what you should do if you break something or have a spill during a science experiment.
What is tell a teacher?
This is a tool that measures force in Newtons.
What is a spring scale?
Joseph wonders what kinds of birds live in his neighborhood. This is the skill will Joseph use to collect information about the variety of birds in his neighborhood.
What is observing?
This type of scientific method would make the most sense when a scientist cannot use the real thing he or she is questioning.
What is a model?
Martina counts the number of people who visit the pool each day for one week. She noticed that it was hottest on Saturday and coldest on Wednesday. This is the conclusion can she come to about the pool visitors using this chart.
What is people go to the pool on hotter days?
These are the set-ups in a scientific experiment that are kept the same and used to compare others to. (Hint: when we first put the Mexican jumping beans on our desks.)
What is the control?
This what you should do when you are done with all the steps of an experiment.
What is clean up?
This is an idea or conclusion based on an observation.
What is an inference?
This is why is it important to perform repeated investigations.
What is it makes the data more valid?
In a science class, students were making ramps to see how far car would travel with ramps at different heights. This is what the students were using to increase the height of the ramps.
What are books?
This is the condition in an experiment that is changed. (Hint: think of the side of the coin).
What is the variable?
A science class is studying the characteristics of Mars. This is the scientific tool they should use.
What is a telescope?
This is the inference one could make about the boy below.
What is the boy is tired?
Experiments, observational investigations, and making a model are three of the ways that scientists perform investigations and this is what we call the steps of these.
What is scientific methods?
In a science class, students were timed as they said their abc's backwards. Each student did this twice. This is what conclusion that one could come to.
What is most students got faster the second time?
Hannah is investigating how the amount of fertilizer affects the height of plants. This would be the variable that is changed.
What is the amount of fertilizer given to each plant?
This tools is the appropriate equipment to use to measure the volume of a liquid.
What is a beaker?