Nature of Science

to get information using your sense

• observe

• investigate

• inference

• model

to study something carefully to answer a question about it

• investigate

• observe

• conclusion

• inference

a test to try to answer a question in science

• experiment

• observe

• inference

• prediction

to write down

• record

• data

• key

• symbol

information

• data

• record

• key

• model

an idea or answer based on facts

• conclusion

• inference

• prediction

• organize

information learned using the senses

• observation

• conclusion

• prediction

• communicate

an idea that is based on what you already know and what you observe

• inference

• prediction

• communicate

• analyze

a statement about what is likely to happen in the future

• prediction

• observation

• inference

• conclusion

information in the form of number that is found using a tool

• measurement

• symbol

• key

• model