Key Points
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Everything
100
A logical way of thinking based on gathering and evaluating evidence.
What is scientific reasoning?
100
Using one or more of senses to gather information.
What is observing?
100
This attitude helps scientists to invent new things.
What is curiosity?
100
A possible answer to a scientific question.
What is a hypothesis?
100
The team that will face off against Ms. Solinsky's favorite college football team this Saturday.
Who is Nevada?
200
The skills of a scientist.
What are observing, predicting, inferring, classifying, classifying, and making models?
200
Interpreting the things you observe based on reasoning from what you already know.
What is inferring?
200
Reporting oberservations and results truthfully is an example of this attitude of a scientist.
What is honesty?
200
Factors that can change in an experiment.
What are variables?
200
What should always balance a scientist's open-mindedness.
What is skepticism?
300
The diverse way in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations about it.
What is scientific inquiry?
300
Observations dealing with numbers.
What are quantitative observations?
300
Using available evidence to make decisions and draw conclusions means you are being this.
What is objective.
300
Also known as the dependent variable, this variable may change in response to the independent variable.
What is the responding variable?
300
A well-tested explanation for a wide range of observations or experimental results.
What is a scientific theory?
400
The attitudes of a scientist.
What are curiosity, honesty, creativity, open-mindedness, skepticism, good ethics, and awareness of bias?
400
A map can be used to help scientists study and interpret things. A map is an example of this.
What is a model?
400
Starting with a general idea and applying it to a specific observation.
What is deductive reasoning?
400
An experiment where only one variable is manipulated at a time.
What is a controlled experiment?
400
A series of actions of events.
What is a process?
500
An observed pattern in natural that does not need explanation.
What is scientific law?
500
The scientist who studied wild chimpanzees in Africa.
Who is Jane Goodall?
500
The three types of bias.
What are experimental, cultural, and personal?
500
The philosopher who discovered that all free-falling objects fall with the same acceleration.
Who is Galileo?
500
The final step in the scientific method.
What is communicating the results?
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