Science Skills

What is a claim?

• a story

• a point that someone is trying to prove with evidence

• a fact that is always true

• a lie

What should evidence include?

• Just what you believe.

• Facts or information that helps us figure out whether a belief or claim is true.

"Pizza is the best Italian food."

Is this an example of a claim, or evidence?

• Evidence

• Claim

"Coke tastes better than Pepsi."

Is this an example of a claim, or evidence?

• Claim

• Evidence

Why do we repeat experiments?

• To make it longer

• Because we must get the same numbers again.

• To find out if any data is wrong.

• So we can have fun.

What does it mean if you get similar results each time you repeat an experiment?

• The results are wrong

• The results are accurate

• We need to change the experiment

• The results make no sense

Which of the following is an example of repeating results?

• Testing a plant’s growth with different types of soil once

• Measuring the height of a plant three times over a week

• Observing a single bird at one location

• Trying a new experiment without following the same steps

Which sentences show evidence?

• Corn is the least favourite pizza because only 9 students like it which is the lowest number

• Cheese is the best flavour

• Veggie is the least favourite pizza

• Cheese is the best flavour because the picture graph shows 15 students like cheese which is the most.

Which is the best evidence for this picture

• Students don't like baseball because I see that

• Student's don't like baseball because it is the lowest.

• Students don't like baseball the most because it has the lowest number of 10 students.

• Studnets don't like baseball the most because basketball has 40 students.

Write some evidence for this bar graph.