What Is Science?

What is science?

• It's the study of the natural world.

• It's the study of animals and plants.

• It's a boring subject you are forced to do in school.

• It's the study of how things react to each other.

What does science involve? (More than one answer)

• Using a microscope and a telescope.

• Learning things from books and taking tests.

• Making observations.

• Performing investigations.

What do all scientists do?

• They always perform experiments.

• They try and explain how and why things move the way they do.

• They try and explain how and why things happen in planets.

• They try and explain how and why things happen in the natural world.

What do all scientists do? (more than one correct answer)

• They perform experiments, or they make things happen using chemicals.

• They observe, or use their five senses to collect information.

• They compare, or they find ways objects and events are similar and different.

• They measure object's mass, or they measure how much an object weighs.

What is an investigation in science?

• It's a synonym of experiment, so it's something done using test tubes and microscopes.

• It's an antonym of experiment, so it's something which doesn't involve test tubes or microscopes.

• It's a procedure carried out to carefully study or test something in order to learn more about it.

• It's an activity carried out by the police to find ou who committed a crime.

What is evidence?

• It's something lawyers submit to Court to prove their client is innocent.

• It's information collected during a scientific investigation.

• It's either one of the self evident truth cited in the Declaration of Independence.

• It's all the information you find on the web.

How can evidence be? (more than one answer)

• Direct

• True

• False

• Indirect

What do scientists do after they conclude an investigation?

• They draw conclusions, or tell what they learnt from the investigation.

• They draw conclusion, or they tell a funny joke to make their science paper funny.

• They draw conclusion, or they write "the end" at the bottom of their paper.

• They draw conclusions, or they draw a picture to explain concepts more clearly.

What does a conclusion need to be based upon?

• An inference the scientist made, or an idea based on an observation,

• The evidence the scientist collected during the investigation.

• The opinion the scientist formed about what he observed.

• The first ideas that came to the scientist's mind as he performed the investigation.

What is an opinion?

• It's an idea based on evidence.

• It's an idea based on a belief , a feeling or judgement.

• It's an idea based on information you find in books.

• It's acollection of scientific data.