Variables
Scientific Method
Vocabulary
Inquiry
Science & Technology
100
This is the variable you intentionally change
What is an independent variable
100
The first thing needed to conduct an experiment (The first step in the scientific method)
What is a Question or Purpose?
100
Data
What is something collected in and investigation/experiment that is analyzed?
100
Using your senses to gather information about something
What is observation?
100
A tool you might use to examine a small flower
What is a hand lens?
200
The variable that you keep the same (so you can compare it)
What is control variable?
200
Final step in the scientific method that includes what you learned from the experiment
What is the conclusion?
200
A thing that you "keep the same" so you can compare it
What is the control variable?
200
Use information and logical reasoning to come to a conclusion
What is infer?
200
A tool used to measure the amount of force being exerted
What is a spring scale
300
The variable you observe so that you can measure it
What is the dependent variable?
300
The 3rd step - your educated guess or prediction of what will happen in the experiment
What is the hypothesis?
300
An idea you can test (educated guess)
What is a hypothesis?
300
Organizing objects or events into categories based on one or another feature.
What is classify/order
300
A tool you would use to measure the mass of an object.
What is a pan balance?
400

This was the dependent variable in the Marbles experiment using a ramp (the thing we measured)

What is how far the object traveled (distance)?

400
The 2nd step - When you look for information on your topic (read or make observations)
What is Research?
400
Data that is expressed with Numbers
What is quantitative data?
400
Using patterns you've observed and your own experience to say what you think will happen.
What is predict?
400
You can use this tool to find the volume of liquids.
What is a measuring cup?
500

This was the independent variable in the Marble Lab (the thing we changed)

What is the sizes of the marbles or balls (or the ramp height)

500
The step where you will sometimes have a data table or a graph to interpret (review for answers)
What is Analysis of data?
500
Data that uses words to describe things
What is qualitative
500
Find ways two or more objects or events are the same or different
What is compare?
500
A tool that measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
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