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Five Skills Scientists Use
Obs, Inf, Prediction
Variables
Scientific Inquiry Steps
Grab Bag
100
Observations that deal with numbers
What is a quaNtitative observation?
100
I notice that the leaves are starting to change color.
What is an observation?
100
The results.
What is the Dependent Variable (DV)?
100
Step one
What is developing a question?
100
Sharing ideas and experimental findings with others
What is communicating?
200
Observations that deal with descriptions.
What is a qualitative observation?
200
The leaves will be off the trees by November.
What is a prediction?
200
What I manipulate.
What is the Independent Variable?
200
Step three
What is designing an experiment?
200
How people change the world around them to meet their needs and solve practical problems.
What is technology?
300
The process of grouping together items that are alike in some way.
What is classifying?
300
Mrs. D'Amico will be happy with how well we all do on our test.
What is a pediction?
300
The variable being tested.
What is the IV?
300
Step two
What is developing a hypothesis?
300
The study of living things (both terms)
What is Life Science/Biology?
400
A way of learning about the natural world.
What is Science?
400
The fish expect food when I come near the aquarium.
What is an inference?
400
These do not change during the experiment.
What is a constant variable?
400
Step 5
What is drawing conclusions?
400
This can be answered by making observations and gathering evidence.
What is a scientific question?
500
Creating representations of complex objects or processes/
What is creating a model?
500
It must have rained because the grass is wet.
What is an inference?
500
The opposite of the experimental group.
What is the control?
500
Step four
What is collecting and interpreting data?
500
A summary of what you have learned from an experiment. You should include data and whether or not your hypothesis was supported.
What is a conclusion?