Science Lenses
An observable event.
What is a phenomenon?
Repeated information that helps predict future information.
What is a pattern?
A group of parts that work together to achieve something.
What is a system?
The first thing that happens in a cause-and-effect situation.
What is a cause?
An exact or measured amount.
What is quantity?
The big ideas scientists use to understand the world.
What are crosscutting concepts?
Anything that has weight and takes up space.
What is matter?
The bee that is the only queen in a hive.
What is the queen bee?
What happens because of a cause.
What is an effect?
An object's size in relation to other objects.
What is scale?
Scientists use different pairs of these to look at phenomena in new ways.
What are lenses?
The ability to do work or create change.
What is energy?
A visual or three-dimensional representation of a system.
What is a model?
When something works well and is not likely to change.
What is stability?
Comparing the size of a part or number to other parts or a whole.
What is proportion?
The lens that helps scientists understand how parts work together.
What are systems and system models?
The food sources bees collect from flowers to get energy.
What are nectar and pollen?
How something looks, its shape, or how it is built.
What is structure?
The process bees perform as they collect pollen and nectar from flowers.
What is pollination?
A classroom model used to visualize and study Earth.
What is a globe?
The lens that helps scientists understand why one event leads to another.
What is cause and effect?
The repeated shape bees create in their honeycomb.
What is a hexagon?
The honeycomb's function is to store and collect this sweet substance.
What is honey?
The stage that comes after a caterpillar and before a butterfly.
What is a chrysalis?
The number of queen bees in a single hive.
What is one?