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S and T chapter 1
S and T chapter 1 lessons 1-3 ;)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Science | A way of learning about the natural world |
| Observing | Using one or more of your senses to gather information |
| Quantitative Observation | Deals with numbers, or amounts |
| Qualtitive Observation | Deals with description that cannot be expressed in numbers |
| Inferring | When you are explaining or interpreting the things that you observe |
| Predicting | Making a statement or a claim about what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence |
| Classifying | The grouping together of items that are alike in some way |
| Evaluating | Involves comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion about them |
| Making Models | Involves creating representations of complex objects or process |
| Skepticism | Having an attitude of doubt |
| Ethics | The rules that enable people to know the right from wrong |
| Personal Bias | Comes from a person's like and dislikes |
| Cultural Bias | Stems from culture in which a person grows up |
| Experimental Bias | A mistake in the design of an experiment that makes a particular result more likely. |
| Objective | Means that you make decisions and draw conclusions based on available evidence. |
| Subjective | Means that personal feelings have entered a decision or conclusion. |
| Deductive reasoning | A way to explain things by starting with a general idea and then applying the idea to a specific observation |
| Inductive reasoning | Uses specific observations to make generalizations |
| Scientific Inquiry | the ongoing process of discovery in science |
| Hypothesis | a possible explanation for a set of observations or answers to a scientific question must be testable |
| Variable | factor that can change an experiment |
| Manipulated Variables | the one factor that a scientist changes during and experiment |
| Responding variables | the factor that changes as result of changes |
| Controlled Experiment | An experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time |
| Data | facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observations. |
| Scientific Theory | A well tested explanation for a wide range of observations or experimental results. |
| Scientific Law | A statement that describes what scientists expect to happen ever time under a particular set of conditions. |