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Scientific skills
100
Used to help understand things you cannot directly observe.
What are models?
100
What you are trying to solve should be well defined, testable, measurable, and controllable.
What is your problem or question?
100
The parts of your experiment that stay the same.
What are controls?
100
Sharing ideas and information.
What is communicating?
200
A way to show the order in which events occur.
What is a flowchart?
200
The section in when you interpret and explain your results and say why your experiment was important.
What is the conclusion?
200
Your educated guess.
What is the hypothesis?
200
Using your senses and instruments to gather information.
What is observing?
300
Two methods to show similarities and differences between 2 things.
What are venn diagrams and compare/contrast tables?
300
The section in which you decide if your data supports your hypothesis.
What are the results?
300
The variables that you change in order to test them.
What are the independent variables?
300
Interpreting an observation based on the evidence and your prior knowledge.
What is inferring?
400
A way to show something that occurs in a continual sequence.
What is a cycle diagram?
400
What you do before the experiment to gather additional information.
What is research?
400
The variables that respond to change, and that you measure.
What are the dependent variables?
400
Grouping like items.
What is classifying?
500
A way to organize and break down broad topics.
What is a concept map?
500
What you do while performing your procedure in order to gather information.
What are observations?
500
The step-by-step method you will follow during your experiment.
What is the procedure?
500
Making an inference on a future event based on current evidence.
What is predicting?