Scientists
The study of the natural world.
What is science?
Untested conclusions made based on observations?
What are inferences?
A tool used to measure mass by placing known mass pieces on one side and an object of unknown mass on the other side.
What is a pan balance?
An If... Then... statement of what you think will happen in an experiment. A possible answer to a question that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
A picture, idea, or object that represents another object or process.
What is a model?
Scientists use five senses to make these.
What are observations?
When a scientist infers, she uses prior ____________ and ________________ to make predictions, draw conclusions, or explain why something happened.
What are knowlege and observations? or
What are schema and evidence?
This tool allows scientists to see very small parts of objects that cannot be seen by the eye alone, such as cells and molecules.
Data that support or reject a hypothesis.
What is evidence?
A dimension not seen when looking down from above in a 2-dimensional model.
What is height?
When moving through lab stations, student scientists should use these to ensure that their measurements are similar to all of the other students.
What are the same measurement tools?
A statement supported by evidence.
What is a claim?
A part of an investigation or experiment that a scientist controls or changes.
What is a variable?
This representation of an object shows length, width, and height.
What is a 3D model?
It is important for scientists to do this after they have completed an investigation.
What is share and/or compare results with other scientists?
A scientific method to display numeric data from an investigation.
What is a graph?
To find out at what temperature ice cream freezes, Ms. O makes 4 identical batches of ice cream mix, puts them in 4 identical containers, and places the containers in 4 identical freezers for the same length of time. Mrs. O is testing a variable: ____.
What is the temperature of the freezer?