Safety and the Scientific Method

What should you do before you start an investigation

• begin working with your partner

• write down your conclusion

• put away supplies

• wait for instructions from your teacher.

If you spill something in the lab/classroom you should...

• leave it for the next class to clean up

• keep doing your lab and clean it up later

• tell you teacher and clean it up immediately

• wipe it off the table and on to the floor

To test the odor (smell) of fumes, you should...

• inhale the fumes directly

• gently waft the fumes towards your nose

• heat the substance before smelling it

• tell your lab partner to do it

When should you first read an experiments directions?

• before you begin the experiment, and again while you are doing the experiment.

• at the end of the experiment

• you don't have to read them if you already know what to do.

• while you are doing the experiment

To dispose of liquids or chemicals after a lab, you should...

• drink them

• pour them down the sink

• follow your teacher's instructions for disposal

• throw everything in the trash can.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

What science skill would you use if you were finding out how far it is from the door of your classroom to your desk

• observing

• communicating

• classifying

• measuring

What science skill are you using if you are grouping rocks as sedimentary, metamorphic, or igneous.

• communicating

• inferring

• classifying

• measuring

What science skill are you using when you are testing a hypothesis?

• experimenting

• measuring

• hypothesizing

• graphing

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

NGSS.HS-PS3-4

What science skill are you using when you display your data from an experiment numerically?

• measuring

• classifying

• graphing

• inferring

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

What science skill are you using when you make an educated guess?

• inferring

• observing

• hypothsizing

• classifying

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-2