Science Vocab

A statement of fact made using your senses

• Inference

• Observation

• Claim

• Reasoning

Combining your observations and your prior knowledge to explain something

• Analyze

• Construct

• Data

• Inference

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Statements in science supported by data and research

• Claim

• Evidence

• Classify

• Reasoning

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

Specific data or observations that support your claim

• Variable

• Phenomenon

• Evidence

• Analyze

Explains how your evidence supports your claim or why you chose that evidence

• Analyze

• Construct

• Conclusion

• Reasoning

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

a group of measurements, facts, or statistics recorded about an experiment

• Data

• Bias

• Model

• Phenomenon

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

to make or form by combining or arranging parts or elements

• Analyze

• Model

• Construct

• Classify

a representation of a system of ideas, events, or processes

• Theory

• Variable

• Bias

• Model

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

to organize and examine the data using charts, graphs, or tables

• Evaluate

• Analyze

• Construct

• Formulate

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

a mistake in the way you designed your experiment or the way you interpreted your data

• Theory

• Variable

• Bias

• Hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3