Part 1 Vocabulary - What is Science?

a way of learning about the natural world

• Science

• Observing

• Quantitative observing

• Qualitative observing

Using one or more of your senses to gather information

• Science

• Observing

• Quantitative observing

• Qualitative observing

Observations dealing with numbers or amounts

• Science

• Observing

• Quantitative observing

• Qualitative observing

Observations dealing with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers

• Science

• Observing

• Quantitative observing

• Qualitative observing

When you explain or interpret the things you observe

• Inferring

• Predicting

• Classifying

• Making Models

Making a statement or a claim about what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence

• Inferring

• Predicting

• Classifying

• Making Models

The grouping together of items that are alike in some ways

• Inferring

• Predicting

• Classifying

• Making Models

Creating representations of complex objects or processes

• Inferring

• Predicting

• Classifying

• Making Models

Involves comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion about them

• Evaluating

• Scientific investigation

• Skepticism

• Personal Bias

The process by which a scientists asks a question about the natural world, collects and analyzes data to help answer that question, and communicates the results to the scientific community

• Evaluating

• Scientific investigation

• Skepticism

• Personal Bias