Observations in Science

What is "science"?

Science is the investigation and exploration of natural events and of the new information that results from those investigations.

Open Ended

Make up 1 random qualitative observation.

Open Ended

Pretend you are in the picture from the previous slide. Make 1 qualitative observation about the picture.

Open Ended

Make up 1 random quantitative observation.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an observation about this picture?

• The boy has fallen off his bike.
• The boy is in a lot of pain.
• The boy has injuries to his knees
• The boy learned his lesson about wheelies

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an observation about the man in this picture:

• The man hates his purple shirt.
• The man has a purple shirt.
• The man is having a bad day.
• This man is upset because he's hungry

Multiple Select

Scenario: You are shopping at Walmart and then you hear glass breaking, someone yelling and you smell pickle juice. Which of these is/are observations?

• You hear glass breaking
• Someone broke a pickle jar

• You smell pickle juice
• You hear yelling

Multiple Choice

Observations like the color or texture of an object are ________________ observations.

• quantitative
• qualitative
• operational
• scientific

Multiple Choice

Observations like measurements are ____________ observations

• quantitiative
• qualitative
• operational
• scientific