Science Basics

What is SCIENCE?

• my 4th period class

• Bill Nye

• a way of learning and exploring our natural world

What is OBSERVING?

• using one or more of your senses

• just looking at some things a few times

• numbers or amounts of something

Tags

NGSS.2-PS1-1

What is a QUANTITATIVE MEASURE?

• descriptions not able to be expressed in numbers

• numbers or amounts of something

What is a QUALITATIVE MEASURE?

• descriptions not able to be expressed in numbers

• numbers or amounts of something

What is INFERRING?

• explaining or interpreting the things you observe

• random guesswork

• using one or more of your senses

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What is PREDICTING?

• explaining or interpreting the things you observe

• forecasting what will happen next based on past experiences

• guessing

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

What is CLASSIFYING?

• grouping items together that are similar

• explaining the things you observe

• random guesswork

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

POSE QUESTIONS

• based on a problem/hypothesis about an observation/inference

• a statement that describes how you measure a variable

• a summary of what you learned

• a decision that confirms or denies your hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

DEVELOP HYPOTHESIS

• testable and measurable

• fake and dumb

• not real and never seen before

• measurable and fake

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

DESIGN EXPERIMENT - What kind of experiment?

• controlled

• uncontrolled

• wild

• insane