Diving into Science Vocabulary

A series of steps developed to test and figure out specific problems.

• Trial

• Scientific Method

• Hypothesis

• Test

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

writing down data often from an experiment

• Data

• Problem

• Record Keeping

• observe

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

NGSS.HS-PS1-3

To look, listen, feel, and/or measure what is happening during an experiment.

• Predict

• infer

• hypothesize

• observe

A repetition that attempts to improve on a process or product.

• sample

• happens in court

• predict

• Trial

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

guess ahead of time what will happen

• Predict

• foreshadow

• record keeping

• story telling

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

test to determine an outcome

• what you change

• experiment

• procedure

• what you should study for

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

Independent variable

• stays the same

• what is measured

• - the variable that is changed by the scientist.

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

Control Variable

• sample

• factors in an experiment that do not change and makes fair.

• what is changed by the scientist

• what is measured

the steps that are followed during an experiment.

• procedure

• experiment

• trial

• sample

the variable in an experiment that is measured by the scientist and is the result of changing the independent variable.

• control variable

• constraint

• Dependent variable

• independent variable