Inquiry vocabulary

Inquiry vocabulary

By Michelle McConnell

Definitions

Definitions

Criteria: What an experiment has to have/do in an experiment

Constraints: The rules of the experiment (limitations)

Quantitative/Qualitative- One is numbers (qualitative) and one is a description of what is happening (quantitative)

Claim, evidence, reasoning- How you will make conclusions on experiments, readings etc.

Independent Variable - The one variable that is changed in the experiment  

Dependent Variable – The variable that is measured (the data)

Control group - The variable that is used for comparison

Constant – The variables that stay the same in an experiment

Hypothesis – Tells what data to collect

Experimental group – The group in the experiment that has the independent variable changed

Match

Match the word to the definition

• Constraints

• Quantitative and qualitative

• Independent Variable

• What an experiment has to have/do in an experiment

• Claim, evidence, reasoning

The rules of the experiment

One is numbers

The one variable

Criteria

How you will

• The rules of the experiment

• One is numbers

• The one variable

• Criteria

• How you will

Match

Match the word and definition

• Dependent variable

• Constant

• Experimental group

• Hypothesis

• Control group

The variable that i

The variable that is use

The group in the ex

Tells what data to collect

The variable that is used for comparison

• The variable that i

• The variable that is use

• The group in the ex

• Tells what data to collect

• The variable that is used for comparison