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Questioning and Hypotheses
Variables and Planning
Observations and Measurements
Analyzing and Graphing Data
Conclusions and Presenting
100
The first step in the scientific method
What is crersting a research question?
100
Anything that changes in the experiment.
What is a variable?
100
Something that you assume to be true based on your observations.
What is an inference?
100
Displays percentages or parts of a whole.
What is a pie chart or circle graph?
100
Type of conclusions that should be written after the experiment.
What is CER?
200
Must answer your question and be testable
What is a hypothesis?
200
Something that stays the same in an experiment.
What is a control?
200
Something that you can measure, reported in numbers.
What is a quantitative observation?
200
Compares qualitative and quantitative data.
What is a bar graph?
200
What you should do during a presentation.
What is talk loudly and face the audience?
300
Must be specific, testable, and measurable.
What is a research question?
300
Something that the experimenter changes, the "cause"
What is an independent variable?
300
Something that you describe, reported in words.
What is a qualitative observation?
300
Uses only quantitative data and requires plotting dots and connecting them.
What is a line graph?
300
The part of CER where you present data that supports what you think.
What is evidence?
400
What you must do before creating your hypothesis, but after coming up with your question.
What is conducting research?
400
Something that is changed by the other variable, the "effect".
What is a dependent variable?
400
The conversion of one kilometer to meters.
What is 1000?
400
Uses quantitative data by grouping sets of numbers into ranges.
What is a histogram?
400
The part of CER where you summarize and state the results of your experiment.
What is claim?
500
The three most important parts of a reliable source.
What are currency, authority, and accuracy?
500
The steps you will take when conducting your experiment, to be written before the experiment is started.
What is a procedure?
500
The conversion of one centimeter to meters.
What is 0.01?
500
The purposes of graphing data.
What is organizing and analyzing?
500
The part of CER that links the other two parts by making a statement that applies to all situations, not just your experiment.
What is reasoning?