What is Science?

Observations made with instruments such as rulers, balances, graduated cylinders, beakers, and thermometers. The results are measurable.

Categorizing something or someone into a certain group or system based on certain characteristics.

A statement about a future event. In science this is based upon experience or knowledge.

To figure something out from evidence and reasoning rather than from a direct statement.

You use your senses to observe the results. (Sight, smell, touch, taste and hear.) It may also involve the recording of data.

A scientific process to make a discovery, prove an idea, or demonstrate a scientific fact.

Knowledge about the natural world that is based on facts learned through experiments and observation.

An explanation of why things work or how things happen. This idea is also different from a hypothesis because it is not a guess. It is also different from a law because a law describes observations and results of experiments.