Science and Engineering practices

Question 1

SCIENTIFIC METHOD:

The way scientist study and learn about the world.

Answer 1

OBSERVATION:

Using your five senses to gather information about something.

Question 2

QUALITATIVE OBSERVATION:

Using your senses to describe the characteristics of an object-color, texture, and taste.

Answer 2

QUANTITATIVE OBSERVATION:

Using numbers or measurement to describe something.

Question 3

INFERENCE:

An explanation of an observation based on prior knowledge.

Answer 3

HYPOTHESIS:

A prediction based on prior knowledge Always written in an if then statement.

Question 4

VARIABLE:

Any factor that can be manipulated. controlled for. or measured in an experiment.

Answer 4

CONTROL VARIABLE:

What must stay the same in the experiment.

Question 5

MANIPULATED/ INDEPENDENT VARIABLE:

The thing that you are testing or changing in an experiment and it is graphed on the X-axis.

Answer 5

DEPENDENT/RESPONDING VARIABLE:

What you are measuring or observing in a experiment and it is graphed on the Y-axis.

Question 6

EVIDENCE:

Scientific data that supports your claim.

Answer 6

REASONING:

The how or why the evidence supports our claim scientific rule.

Question 7

CONCLUSION:

A written summary of an experiment that uses evidence to prove what you learned.

Question 8

C-E-R

CLAIM
EVIDENCE
REASONING

Answer 8

CLAIM:

Is the answer to the question you are trying to answer.