Scientific Inquiry Vocab Review

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what needs to be answered or solved

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Problem

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educated guess/prediction based on prior knowledge or research

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Hypothesis

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the step by step procedure to test the hypothesis

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Experiment

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what was learned from the experiment (was the hypothesis valid or invalid?)

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Claim

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share what was learned with others

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Communicate Results

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making sense of something by using the 5 sense (seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling)

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Observation

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an observation that doesn’t involve numbers or measurement 

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Qualitative Observation

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an observation that involves numbers or measurement 

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Quantitative Observation

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a statement that attempts to make sense of an observation

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Inference