Note Taking
Thinking Like a Scientist
Experimenting & Graphing
Scientific Method
Facts, Theories, Laws & Vocab
100
A way of taking notes that compares and contrasts two similar yet different things.
What is a Venn Diagram
100
To Explore, Explain, and Predict the natural world
What is the 3 Goals of Science
100
An Experiment that only has one variable changed at a time.
What is a Controlled Experiment
100
A educated guess to a question
What is Hypothesis
100
The group in an experiment which does not include the variable that is being tested.
What is Control Group
200
A way of note taking that involves using your prior knowledge and then recording what you learned from reading.
What is the 'What I Know, What I Learned Method'
200
Using prior knowledge to make logical explanations for events.
What is an Inference
200
What is added to an experimental group that is tested.
What is a Variable
200
The 6th step in the Scientific method
What is Record and Analyze
200
An Explanation
What is interpretation
300
To order a reading section or set of events.
What is Sequencing
300
Data in the form of Numbers
What is Quantitative Data
300
A variable that does not depend on other factors.
What is an Independent Variable
300
Must be done before asking a question.
What is Observe
300
The part of an experiment that is changed in order to be tested.
What is a Variable
400
Highlighting words, defining them, and understanding reading through these definitions.
What is Vocabulary Building
400
Tools used to help scientists
What is Technology
400
All of the X values added then divided by the total number of X values.
What is the X Average
400
Another word for Data
What is Information
400
Something that is believed to be true, as it has been tested over and over with the same results.
What is a Theory
500
A method used that includes each section title along bullet points that describe key concepts and important facts.
What is Outlining
500
Descriptive data that does not include numerical data
What is Qualitative Data
500
A way of seeing what is happening in the graph. It can be seen as a way of Qualitatively describing Quantitative Data.
What is a Trend
500
The step that must be revisited if a conclusion is incorrect.
What is Step 4: Create a Hypothesis
500
A Pattern in nature that is expressed in mathematical or scientific terms.
What is Law
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