6th Grade Science Essential Vocabulary

Question

• The topic of the experiment in question form

• a list of items used in an experiment

• a group in an experiment that does not receive the special treatment.

Hypothesis

• the steps taken in an experiment

• any variable that does not change during an experiment

• a prediction and states whether the independent variable will have an effect on the dependent variable

Materials

• the steps taken in an experiment

• a list of items used in an experiment

• the variable that is manipulated or changed

Procedure

• the steps taken in an experiment

• facts, numbers, or values obtained in an experiment…usually presented in a chart/table/graph form

• the group in the experiment being tested and receives the special treatment

Data

• facts, numbers, or values obtained in an experiment…usually presented in a chart/table/graph form

• the final statement in an experiment-states whether the hypothesis was correct or not and the result/s of the experiment

• the group in the experiment being tested and receives the special treatment

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

Conclusion

• the group in the experiment being tested and receives the special treatment

• observations that do not use numbers

• the final statement in an experiment-states whether the hypothesis was correct or not and the result/s of the experiment

Control Group

• a group in an experiment that does not receive the special treatment.

• the group in the experiment being tested and receives the special treatment

• any variable that does not change during an experiment.

Experimental Group

• a group in an experiment that does not receive the special treatment.

• the group in the experiment being tested and receives the special treatment

• any variable that does not change during an experiment.

Control Variables (constants)

• observations that do use numbers

• any variable that does not change during an experiment.

• a prediction and states whether the independent variable will have an effect on the dependent variables

Independent Variables

• any variable that does not change during an experiment.

• the variable being measured in the experiment

• the variable that is manipulated or changed