Scientific Method & process skills
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Observing | To use the five senses to learn about an object or event, or to collect information about an object
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| Inferring & Predicting | To guess or draw a conclusion about an object or future event based on observations
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| Classifying | To place an object or event in groups based on common characteristics
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| Measuring | To determine the length, area, volume, mass, or temperature to describe and quantify objects
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| Communicating | To describe an object or event to another person
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| Controlling Variables | To study how attributes vary by manipulating variables
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| Experimenting | To put all the process skills together in one activity
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| Representing Data | To organize your measurements to make your information easier to use and interpret
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| Purpose | What do you want to know?
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| Research | What can you find out?
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| Hypothesis | What do you predict?
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| Experiment | How are you going to test it?
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| Analysis | What happened during your experiment?
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| Conclusion | What did you find out?
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| Dependent Variable | The factor/variable that is being observed in an experiment
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| Independent Variable | The factor/variable that is changed in an experiment
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| Constant | The factor/variable that remains the same in an experiment
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Pamela Hebert
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