Scientific Method

Science fields

Match correctly.

• Physical science

• Involves examining living organisms and their workings from cells to ecosystems.

• Earth science

• The study of the Earth's structure, properties and processes. .

• Life science

• The study of matter, its structure and interactions.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

Science fields

Categorize correctly.

Groups:

(a) EARTH SCIENCE

,

(b) PHYSICAL SCIENCE

,

(c) LIFE SCIENCE

• geology

• oceanography

• geography

• physics

• meteorology

• botany

• biology

• chemistry

• zoology

• genetics

• astronomy

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Match the following science process skills with their definitions:

• Communicating

• Using words or symbols to describe an action, object or event.

• Inferring

• Using both standard and nonstandard measures or estimates to describe the dimension of an object.

• Classifying

• Making an educated guess about an object or event based on previously gathered information.

• Predicting

• Stating the outcome of a future event based on a pattern of evidence.

• Measuring and using numbers

• Grouping or ordering objects or events into categories based on properties.

The process of using your five senses to gather information.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Information collected through a scientific investigation.

• evidence

• opinion

• science

• investigation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

The study of the natural world through observation.

• evidence

• opinion

• science

• investigation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

A personal belief or judgment based on what a person thinks or feels but not necessarily based on evidence.

• evidence

• opinion

• science

• investigation

A procedure carried out to carefully observe, study, or test something in order to learn more about it.

• evidence

• opinion

• science

• investigation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

If the delivery driver comes every day at 2 p.m., I can expect them to come at 2 p.m. today as well.

This is an example of a/an...

• Observation

• Inferring

• Prediction

• Measuring

This classroom is too warm.

This is an example of a/an...

• Observation

• Inferring

• Prediction

• Measuring