TLAS and Scientific Inquiry
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| What skills do scientists use to learn about the world? | Scientist use skills such as inferring, predicting, making models,classifying,and observing to learn more about the world.
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| What attitudes are important in science? | A successful scientist should possess certain attitudes towards science,such as curiosity, honesty, open- mindedness, skepticism, and creativity.
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| Observing | Using one or more of your senses to gather information
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| Quantitative Observations | Observations that deal with numbers or amount
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| Qualitative Observations | Observations that deal with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers
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| Inferring | Explaining or interpreting the things that you observe
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| Classifying | Making a forecast of what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence
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| Making Models | Creating representations of complex objects or processes
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| Science | A way of learning about the natural world
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| Skepticism | Having an attitude pf doubt
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| What is scientific inquiry? | Scientific inquiry is the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose to explanations based on evidence they gather.
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| What makes a hypothesis testable? | What makes a hypothesis testable is if the researches must be able to carry out investigations and gather evidence that will either support or disprove the hypothesis.
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| How do scientific theories differ from scientific law? | Scientific theory differs from scientific law because scientific law describes an observes pattern in nature without attempting to explain it, where as scientific theories a well tested explanations.
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