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Process Skills Voc
Science Process Skills Vocabulary - words and examples of each
Term | Meaning |
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Observing | tasting, touching, using your 5 senses |
Communicating | talking or listening, writing a letter |
Estimating | Guessing how many M&Ms are in a jar |
Measuring | Using a ruler, scale, to determine size |
Collecting Data | Writing down your observations |
Classifying | Separating marbles into groups of small and large |
Inferring | Observing footprints and making a guess about what someone is doing |
Predicting | Guessing about what is going to happen |
Investigating | Using clues to help "Catch a Crook" |
hypothesis | If...then...statement that you test during an experiment |
Independent Variable (IV) | the one variable you change (or test) in an experiment |
Dependent Variable (DV) | what you are looking for to happen in your experiment; what you measure |
Variable | Anything that could affect the outcome of the experiment |
Control Group | the one group where you don't apply the IV |
Constant Conditions | all the variable you keep the same in the experiment |