Scientific Reasoning

Making decisions and drawing conclusions based on available evidence is considered to be ________

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A well tested explanation for wide range of observations and experimental results.

• Scientific Theory

• Scientific Law

• Hypothesis

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

Why is it important for an experiment to contain a control?

• So that scientists can take measurements

• So that scientists can compare what has the effect in the experiment

• So that scientists can make observations

• So that scientists can hypothesize

Describe the experimental group.

• The group that stays the same

• the group that receives the treatment or test

• the group that is in its natural state

• the group that changes

An interpretation reached based on observation and reasoning is a/an...

• conclusion

• theory

• inference

• hypothesis

Evidence should be based on...

• all the data collected from an experiment

• opinions you have

• beliefs of the general population

• some data collected from an experiment

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

CER stands for

• claim, evidence, reasoning

• claim, elementary, rock & roll

• camp, eastern, rage

• reasoning, evidence, claim

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NGSS.MS-LS1-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Use Scientific ideas to show how the evidence supports the claim. Why? What it all means. Explain and discuss.

• Claim

• Evidence

• Reasoning

• science

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Before you start a lab, you make a ___________. An educated guess of what you think will occur in the lab.

• prediction

• fair test

• variable

• control variable

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

Which of the following best describes the process of forming a hypothesis in scientific reasoning?

• A) Making an educated guess based on observations

• B) Collecting data without any prior assumptions

• C) Drawing conclusions from experimental results

• D) Publishing findings in a scientific journal