Science Lenses
An observable event.
What is a phenomenon?
Repeated information that can help 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 the cause?
An exact or measured amount.
What is quantity?
Big ideas scientists use as lenses to understand the world.
What are crosscutting concepts?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
The plant part that supports the flower and connects it to the roots.
What is the stem?
What happens because of a cause.
What is the effect?
An object's size in relation to other objects.
What is scale?
People who carefully observe and investigate the natural world.
Who are scientists?
The ability to do work or create change.
What is energy?
How something looks, its shape, and how it is built.
What is structure?
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?
A visual or three-dimensional representation of something.
What is a model?
The direction the sunflowers in the picture are facing.
What is toward the sun?
The intended purpose of an object or structure.
What is function?
The opposite of stability.
What is change?
A model of a car, train, or building that shows its size in relation to the real object.
What is a scale model?
The lens that helps scientists understand how and why events happen.
What is cause and effect?
A push, pull, or battery can give this to a toy car.
What is energy?
The chair parts that help support a person sitting on it.
What are the legs?
The effect when a sunflower receives the air, sun, and water it needs.
What is the sunflower growing?
The question 'How many sunflowers are in the field?' uses this science lens.
What is quantity?