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Skills
Attitudes
Attitudes
Scientific Inquiry
100
Using one or more of your senses to gather information
Observing
100
Grouping together of items that are alike in some way
Classifying
100
Being truthful
Honesty
100
Accept new ideas
Open-mindedness
100
A possible answer to a scientific question
Hypothesis
200
What are the two types of observations
Qualitative Quantitative
200
Creating representations of complex objects and processes
Making models
200
Eagerness to learn
Curiosity
200
Attitude of doubt
Skepticism
200
A hypothesis must be able to be tested, true or false?
True
300
What type of observation deals with descriptions
Qualitative
300
List three examples of models
Maps Mathematical equations Computer programs
300
Inventive ways to solve problems
Creativity
300
Likes or cultures affecting your thinking
Awareness of bias
300
Factors that can change in an experiment
Variables
400
Observations that deal with numbers
Quantitative
400
Comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion
Evaluating
400
Sense of right and wrong
Ethics
400
Name the three types of bias
Personal Cultural Experimental
400
Facts, figures and other evidence gathered through qualitative and quantitative observations
Data
500
Making a statement or a claim about what will happen in the future based on past experiences and evidence
Predicting
500
When you explain things that have happened or are happening based on reasoning from what you know
Inferring
500
Which two attitudes should be balanced
Open-mindedness Skepticism
500
Making decisions based on evidence
Objective
500
List three ways a scientist can communicate results
Talks at scientific meetings Internet Publishing articles