Science Skills

Classifying/Organizing

to sort into groups based on similarities and differences

Observation

information you gather from using your senses

Estimating

an intelligent, informed guess about an object's properties

inference (infer)

to draw a conclusion from what you observed

predict

using your knowledge to guess what will happen next

hypothesis

what you think will happen and why in an experiment

investigation

an experiment set up to test the hypothesis

experimental variable

the one part (factor) being tested in an experiment

control variable

the parts (factors) that remain the same in an experiment and are not being tested

Scientific Method

1. ask QUESTIONS

2. form HYPOTHESIS

3. PLAN and conduct

experiment

4. collect, record and analyze

DATA

5. draw CONCLUSIONS

6. communicate RESULTS

(queens help people design crazy rings)

Data

information