Scientific Skills and Scientific Method

Using one or more of your senses to gather information

• observing

• inferring

• predicting

• concluding

Tags

NGSS.4-ESS2-1

NGSS.4-PS3-2

Explaining your observations

• observing

• inferring

• predicting

• concluding

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

A possible explanation to a scientific question

• prediction

• hypothesis

• evaluating

• classifying

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Facts, numbers, observations in an experiment

• data

• variable

• law

• theory

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Observations that deal with numbers or amounts or measurements

• Qualitative

• Quantitative

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

Observations that deal with descriptions

• Qualitative

• Quantitative

A statement about what will happen in the future

• inferring

• observing

• predicting

• classifying

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A hypothesis must be

• correct

• controlled

• testable

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

NGSS.HS-PS1-2

A summary of what you have learned in an experiment

• hypothesis

• inquiry

• conclusion

• law

The stage in which other scientists share and may duplicate your experiment

• classifying

• conclusion

• hypothesis

• communicate

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4