Observing
Inferring
Predicting
Classifying/Analyzing
Models
100
observing
What is using your senses to gather information.
100
What you are doing when you make an inference.
What is you explain things that you have observed.
100
Predicting
What is a statement on what will happen in the future based on past experience.
100
classifying
What is grouping items that are similar?
100
models
What is representations of complex objects or systems.
200
quantitative observation
What is deals with numbers or amounts
200
A character has a diaper in her hand, spit-up on her shirt, and a bottle warming on the counter. You can infer that this character is a mother.
What is a mother
200
You see an egg rolling across a table you prediction
What is the egg will roll off the table and break upon hitting the floor.
200
analyzing
What is comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion.
200
Help people study things that can't be observed directly.
What is the reason for making models?
300
qualitative observation
What is descriptions that cannot be expressed using numbers.
300
detective enters the house, which has been ransacked. He sees blood on the floor, and it leads out the back door. You can infer that
What is a crime has been committed.
300
You study for a test. You can predict
What is that you will do well on the test.
300
Jane has a really old coin collection. She has put grouped them according to the date they were minted.
What is classification?
300
All models are accurate.
What is false?
400
Jim has 2 brown dogs, one calico cat and a dozen chickens on his farm.
What is a quantitative observation.
400
Your friend walks past you without smiling. Her head is hanging down. She wipes a tear away from her eye, and looks at her report card. You can infer that
What is you friend did not make a good grade on her report card.
400
Gale and John have been dating for a long time and have a wonderful relationship. You predict
What is they will get married someday.
400
The teacher put all of the girls on one side of the room and all the boys on the other.
What is classification?
400
Of a diagram of the inside of the earth, weather patterns and a stature of Abraham Lincoln the one that is not a model.
What is the statue of Abraham Lincoln.
500
Sue is described as having red hair, tall and slim with freckles.
What is a qualitative observation.
500
What inferences are based on
What is on what you already know?
500
Jerry feels very confidant about his job interview today. He has gotten every job that he has been interviewed. You predict
What is that Jerry will get the job.
500
You are sick and go to the doctor. She runs several test. When the results come in, the doctor looks at all the results, compares the data and decides that you have an ulcer.
What is analyzing?
500
Mathematecal equations and computer programs are examples of models.
What is true?