Method to the Madness
The first step of the scientific method.
What is “making observations”?
Before engaging in any laboratory experiment or activity, read these thoroughly.
What are the instructions?
All living organisms are made of these.
What are cells?
The name of a small, flat piece of glass on to which a scientist places what they want to see through the microscope.
What is a slide?
This is the name of a collection of tissues joined in a unit to serve a common function.
What is an organ?
This is an educated, thoughtful guess about the outcome of an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
Goggles, gloves, and lab aprons are examples of this.
What is safety equipment?
This is a method of recording and organizing data that uses an x-axis and a y-axis.
What is a graph?
In cellular respiration, cells need oxygen and this to produce water, CO2, and energy.
What is sugar?
This is the organ that controls the functioning of the body.
What is the brain?
Scientists need this in order to prove a hypothesis.
What is evidence?
Never put any lab equipment into this.
What is your mouth?
Solving problems, investigating how the world works, and expressing curiosity are all traits of this kind of person.
What is a scientist?
The name for the part of the microscope a scientist looks through.
What is the ocular lens or eyepiece?
The term for a group of organs that work together to perform a function.
What is an organ system?
The word for the analysis of results and statement of whether an experiment has supported a hypothesis.
What is a conclusion?
This rule is being broken in the picture.
What is “never taste the chemicals”?
Yeast, amoeba, and paramecium are three examples of this kind of living thing.
What is a unicellular organism?
When focusing your microscope, it’s important to make sure the lens does not touch this.
What is the cover slip?
The name of the organ system that processes food.
What is the digestive system?
DAILY DOUBLE
This is the format a hypothesis should take.
What is If-Then-Because?
This is the first step students should take if anything goes wrong in the lab.
What is “tell the teacher”?
The term for a scientist who teaches the public about scientific concepts.
What is a science communicator?
The process by which some cells only need sugar to produce alcohol, CO2, and energy.
What is anaerobic respiration?
Compared to humans, these organs are “undersized” in frogs.
What are lungs?