Science Tools
Inquiry Skills
Methods Scientists Use
Lab Safety
Variables
100
A device used to find the mass of an object
What is a pan balance?
100
Using logical reasoning to draw a conclusion.
What is infering?
100
The term used to describe the statement, "Medicine A will kill more bacteria than Medicine B."
What is a hypothesis?
100
Used to protect your eyes in lab.
What are safety goggles?
100
The variable you change in order to see its effect.
What is the independent variable?
200
A device used to measure the force of an object
What is a spring scale?
200
Skill used to find the length of an object.
What is measuring?
200
An organized way to address a problem.
What is the scientific method?
200
What you should do if you get a cut while working in the lab.
What is tell the teacher?
200
The variable that may or may not change during an experiment (it can be measured)
What is the dependent variable?
300
A tool used to measure liquids (can be found in many sizes and usually marked in mL)
What is a beaker?
300
Skill used when you make two different-sized foam balls to represent Earth and the moon.
What is making a model?
300
The best way to test a hypothesis (choices).
What is perform an experiment?
300
What you should do after you have completed a lab, and right before you leave the room.
What is clean up the room, or wash your hands?
300
The independent variable or variable that we changed in the cracker experiment.
What is the chewed up cracker.
400
The tool you might use to measure the length of a baseball bat (choices)
What is a meterstick?
400
The skills we use to find things out when we conduct an investigation.
What is inquiry?
400
A possible answer or solution that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
400
The first step before you do anything in the lab.
What is following directions or listening to the teachers instructions?
400
The variable that always stays the same (used to compare)
What is the control?
500
The mass of a pine cone on one side of a pan balance with two 10 gram weights and one 5 gram weight on the other side of the balance.
What is 25 grams?
500
Finding ways that two or more objects are alike and/or how they are different.
What is comparing?
500
When you perform an experiment, you do this after you have collected and analyzed the data.
What is draw a conclusion?
500
What you should if you have long sleeves.
What is roll them up?
500
The independent in the following investigation: Investigating the effect of temperature on the amount of a certain substance that will dissolve in water.
What is the temperature of the water?
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