Inquiry Skills Vocab

An educated guess that can be tested.

• Hypothesis

• Scientific Method

• Theory

• Law

Take the information you observed and use logical reasoning to come to a conclusion.

• Observe

• Infer

• Classify

• Experiment

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

An accepted, organized way to address a problem.

• Hypothesis

• Theory

• Law

• Scientific Method

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

Use your senses to gather information about something.

• Classify

• Observe

• Variable

• Independent Variable

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

A factor that is measured in an experiment.

• Theory

• Law

• Dependent Variable

• Hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

Find ways that two or more objects are the same or different.

• classify

• observe

• compare

• variable

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

Use the information to say what you think will happen in the future.

• Observe

• Infer

• Classify

• Predict

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Separate things into different groups for instruction.

• Theory

• Law

• Varbiable

• Classify

List of instructions for an experiment

• Classify

• Observe

• Procedure

• Materials

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

Get an exact, precise answer

• estimate

• measure

• classify

• predict