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