Collecting data Science vocabulary - 5th grade

to study something carefully to understand what it means

• analyze

• data

• variable

• investigation

to share ideas and information

• prediction

• experiment

• conclusion

• communicate

a statement about what you think data and observations mean

• analyze

• communicate

• conclusion

• prediction

pieces of information

• conclusion

• data

• dependent variable

• independent variable

a condition that may change when a scientist changes the independent variable in an experiment

• variable

• observation

• dependent variable

• independent variable

a controlled test done to answer a scientific question

• investigation

• experiment

• prediction

• conclusion

a condition that a scientist changes in an experiment

• observation

• analyze

• dependent variable

• independent variable

a careful study of something to answer a question about it

• analyze

• communicate

• investigation

• observation

information gathered with the senses

• variable

• prediction

• observation

• data

a statement about what is likely to happen in the future

• variable

• predicition

• observation

• data