Question | Answer |
What is an expirement? | A scientific test to try out a theory to see the effect of something. |
What is a fair test? | An investigation in which all variables are being controlled except the one that is being tested. |
What is a testable question? | How scientists begin an investigation. Often written in the form of a cause-and-effect question: "What causes...? How does... affect? What would happen if?" |
What is a hypothesis? | A careful prediction that can be tested about how an investigation or expirement will turn out. |
What is an observation? | A careful way of taking note of someone or something, using 5 senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch. |
What is data? | Information or facts. |
What is an outcome? | The result of something. |
What is a procedure? | A way of doing something involving a numbered series of steps. |
What are variables? | Conditions that affect the outcome of an expirement. |
What's an analysis? | Making sense of data by looking for patterns and relationships to explain results. |
What's a conclusion? | A decision or realization based on the facts that you have. |
What is the scientific method? | It is a systematic way of finding out more about the world. |
How do we learn in science? | We observe, ask questions, propose answers, test proposed answers and share our results with others. |
What is a scientific theory? | It is a proposed explanation of something that happens in nature.
It can be used to predict further events of the same kind.
It can be tested through an experiment or observation. |
What is a scientific law? | A statement that describes a commonly occurring natural event. |
What is scientific inquiry? | It is how we study the world. We ask questions and search for answers to increase our understanding. |