What Do Scientists Do?
A scientist that studies rocks, weather, and the planets.
What is a earth scientist?
This is done to find out how fast a ball rolls down a ramp.
What is measure the ball's speed?
This tool can be used to compare close-up views of bird feathers.
What is a microscope?
How a model of a volcano using soda and vinegar is like a real volcano.
What is it erupts like some volcanoes?
Someone who asks questions about the natural world.
What is a scientist?
Scientists that study living things.
What is a life scientist?
A scientist concludes that the evidence from her experiment doesn't support her hypothesis. She should do this next.
What is look at the evidence and make a new hypothesis.
This evidence supports the conclusion that plants grow best in bright light.
What is plants kept in shade did not grow as well as plants in sunlight?
A model that shows the moon in motion as it orbits Earth.
What is computer animation?
Information collected by using the five senses.
What is an observation?
One way a scientist can test a hypothesis for an experiment.
What is conduct an experiment?
The scientific skill used when thinking someone hurt themselves because there is an ice pack on the arm.
What is inferring?
Evidence that hot water will cause a sugar cube to dissolve faster in hot water than in cold.
Observing that a cube of sugar in hot water dissolved before the cube in cold water.
A model that has length, width, and height.
What is a three-dimensional model?
An idea or explanation that can be tested with an investigation.
What is a hypothesis?
A statement that is supported by evidence.
What is a claim?
To find out which food a cat likes best, this is the variable in the investigation.
What is the type of cat food?
Different groups of students conduct the same experiment and obtain the results. They should do this next.
What is compare their work and results.
A model that can show movement or an event.
What is a computer model?
A statement that explains and observation.
What is an inference?
To share the results of investigations with others.
What is communicate?
To tell what will happen in the future.
What is to predict?
This tool is used to measure force, such as gravity.
What is a spring scale?
Something that represents the real thing.
What is a model?
The one thing that is changed during an experiment.
What is a variable?