Science Skills

Grouping together items that are alike or that have shared characteristics is

• classifying

• making models

• investigating

• evaluating

Comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion

• evaluating

• investigating

• predicting

• observing

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Explaining on interpreting observations

• inferring

• predicting

• classifying

• investigating

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Studying or researching a subject to discover facts or to reveal new information

• investigating

• evaluating

• inferring

• predicting

Creating representations of complex objects or processes

• making models

• evaluating

• classifying

• inferring

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

Using one or more of your senses to gather information

• observing

• inferring

• predicting

• classifying

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Making a statement or claim abut what will happen based on past experience or evidence

• predicting

• inferring

• investigating

• evaluating

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A scientist sorts test tubes according to what substance each one contains. This is an example of what skill being used?

• classifying

• making models

• predicting

• inferring

You left the milk out on the counter overnight. You think that the milk will be spoiled. This is an example of what skill being used?

• predicting

• inferring

• evaluating

• classifying

When you see your friend when she gets home from the beach, she has a sunburn so she must have forgotten to put on sunscreen.

• inferring

• predicting

• evaluating

• observing