What do Scientist Do?
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Use your five senses to discover.
What is Observe?
Used to make close observations.
What is a hand lens?
Changed by the scientist.
What is the independent variable?
A hypothesis must be testable. Which hypothesis is testable?
a. Blue is the best color.
b. Summer is nicer than fall.
c. Dogs are better than cats.
d. A beagle can jump higher than a Persian cat.
What is d. A beagle can jump higher than a Persian cat.
The state of what one thinks will happen under certain conditions based on data or observation.
What is a hypothesis?
Think ahead about what might happen.
What is Predict?
Used to measure mass.
What is a balance, pan balance, double-beam balance, spring scale?
Responds to change made to the independent variable.
What is a dependent variable?
Which one of the questions below is a Testable Question?
a. What is gravity?
b. How many stars are in the sky?
c. Why does the Earth orbit the Sun?
d. What color candle burns the fastest?
What is d. What color candle burns the fastest?
An event, condition, or factor that can be changed or controlled in order to study or test a hypothesis in a scientific experiment.
What is a variable?
Place things into definite categories by common properties.
What is classify?
Used to measure liquids.
What is measuring cups, graduated cylinders, and beakers?
The group that did not have the variable changed.
What is the controlled group?
A view or judgement formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
What is an opinion?
Measurements or observations collected and recorded in an experiment or investigation.
What is a data collection?
Use reasoning to draw conclusions from your observations
What is infer?
Used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
The step by step process that scientist follow when completing a science experiment/investigation.
What is a procedure?
The practice of informing, educating, sharing wonderment, and raising awareness of science-related topics.
What is communicate?
Used to describe a question that can be answered through an experiment or observation.
What is a Testable Question?
Describe and share information and evidence with others.
What is communicate?
Used to measure distance.
What is a ruler, tape measure, meter stick?
A testable question.
a) the first step of the Scientific Method
b) the second step of the Scientific Method
c) the third step of the Scientific Method
d) the fourth step of the Scientific Method
What is the first step of the Scientific Method?
A word or symbol that tells what a number stands for.
What is units?
Is information about the natural world gathered through the senses and/or scientific instruments.
What is an observation?