Vocab
What is using your senses to gather information?
Observation
What step does every scientific experiment begin with?
A question/problem
a certain pattern or way of doing something; steps of an experiment
Procedure
an activity that is planned and designed to test a hypothesis
using your five senses to collect information
Making an observation
What is the information that is gathered in scientific experiments?
Data
The 2nd step - your educated guess or prediction of what will happen in the experiment
State Hypothesis
Scientific investigation questions are ones that require a person to do what?
Experiment or test
numbers, observations, or information you collect in an experiment.
Data
The summary at the end of an experiment that explains the results
Conclusion
An educated guess before an experiment begins
Hypothesis
The third part of the process, you now are looking to test your hypothesis
Conduct an experiment
A testable idea that is a suggested solution to a problem
Hypothesis
a logical conclusion based on observation
inference
Find ways two or more objects or events are the same or different
Compare
What is a conclusion that is based on an observation
Inference
The step where you will sometimes have a data table or a graph to interpret (review for answers)
Analysis of data
what is summarizing a hypothesis that has been supported with repeating testing.
A theory
research to help find an answer
investigate
Using patterns you've observed and your own experience to say what you think will happen.
what is the model or guide used to gather information and solve problems
Scientific Method
A scientist publishes the results of an experiment. Which science skill is this?
Communicating the results
In the following statement, what is the hypothesis? Jamie noticed that many of the plants in her yard were dying. She saw some June bugs in the area one day. She wanted to try to figure out what was happening to her plants. She thinks that if June bugs live near her plants, then they will die faster than plants without the June bugs.
What is "if June bugs live near her plants, then they will die faster than plants without the June bugs."
things that change or can be changed during an experiment
Variable
The number of variables that you can change in an experiment.
one