Vocabulary
Using your 5 senses to gather information.
What is an observation?
This goal of this activity was to practice using the metric system.
What is the Let's Grow Metric lab?
This is the first step in the Scientific Method.
What is Make an Observation?
This study of the constellations is often confused with astronomy.
What is astrology?
This unit of measurement is used to assess how long something is?
What is a meter?
Using your brain to connect ideas based on previous knowledge and things you notice.
What is inference?
This activity helped us understand the scientific method.
What is the Oreo Lab?
This is another word for making a prediction.
What is a hypothesis?
This large furry creature is often seen walking around in wooded areas.
What is bigfoot?
This unit of measurement is used instead of gallons for measuring liquid.
What is liters?
This is the thing you change in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
The point of this activity was to help us connect our own lives to science.
What is the bubble map?
This is the final step in the scientific method.
What is Draw a Conclusion?
This activity involving hot coals is only successful if you do lots of meditation beforehand.
What is firewalking?
We used this unit of measurement for weighing Oreos.
What is grams?
This is the thing you measure in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
This activity assessed our observation vs inference skills.
What was the Skittles lab?
What do you do after you run the experiment?
What is Analyze data?
The statement bananas cure what is an example of pseudoscience.
What is Cancer?
The metric system uses this number as the base.
What is 10?
This is the scientific writing structure often used when drawing a conclusion.
What is CER or claim, evidence, reasoning?
This activity focused on understanding the difference between real and fake science.
What was the pseudoscience video? (Bill Nye video)
What are independent, dependent, and controlled?
Pseudoscience differs from actual science because it lacks this important thing backing it up.
What is evidence?
This prefix is used to measure meters by 100ths.
What is centi?