Thinking like a Scientist
The Study of Life
Scientific Inquiry
Safety in the Laboratory
100
A way of learning about the natural world
What is Science.
100
The study of living things.
What is Life Science?
100
You might not know it, but your questioning can be the start of this process.
What is Scientific Inquiry?
100
Conduct careful scientific investigations by planning for safety.
What does good preparation help?
200
Using 1 or more of your senses.
What is Observing?
200
The study of life.
What is Biology?
200
A possible explanation for a set of observations.
What is a hypothesis?
200
No, a day before.
Should you start preparing the lab the day of the lab?
300
Deal with a number or amount
What is Quantitative Observations?
300
The general term for a living thing.
What is a Organism?
300
Facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observations.
What is Data?
300
You work outdoors, outside of the laboratory.
What is "The Field"?
400
Deal with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers.
What is Qualitative Observations.
400
The process of change that causes an organism to become more complex during its lifetime.
What is Development?
400
Sharing ideas and experimental findings with others through writing and speaking.
What is Communicating?
400
Go get an adult or teacher?
What if there is an accident?
500
Scientist use 5 skills and the 5 skills are observing, inferring, predicting, classifying, and making models.
How many skills do scientist have and what are the skills?
500
Organisms are diverse, yet share similar characteristics.
What is one big idea of Science?
500
Carry out investigations and gather evidence that will either support or disprove the hypothesis.
What must researchers do?
500
Unplug everything and clean up your mess.
When you finish a lab, What do you do?