5 Science Skills

The name of the information that you get from your experiment (you organize it into charts and graphs).

• observations
  conclusion
• data
• variables
• hypothesis

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Explaining the color of a chemical would be what kind of observation? We would use the 5 senses to make this kind of observation.

• Qualitative 
• Quanitative

A series of steps used by scientists to solve a problem or answer a question. 

• scientific method
• recipe
• data collection
• metric system

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

Cleaning up the science classroom is the job of -

• each student
• new students
• the teacher
• old students

Which of the following is allowed during a Lab?

• Leaving a mess for others to clean

• Running or horse play

• Chewing gum, eating or drinking

• Asking questions or following the procedure

What is a device used to measure the mass of an object or substance? The base SI unit would be in grams.

• striker
• balance
• graduated cylinder
• lab stand

What is used to measure the volume of liquids very precisely? The measurement would be in liters or milliliters.

• beaker
• graduated cylinder
• Erlenmeyer flask
• test tube

When experimenting with the growth of a plant, a scientist uses three (of the same type of) plants, two different fertilizers, equal light, and equal water. The fact that we kept the light, plant, and water the same in each experiment are examples of ____________. These can be unlimited in number.

• an dependent variable
• an independent variable
• a control
• constants

What is a control?

• What a scientist changes in an experiment to test their hypothesis

• What scientist measure to see if it responded to a change

• What happens when you do an experiment

• What you keep the same throughout all experimental groups and what your results are compared to

Which is an example of qualitative data?

• 13 butterflies

• 6 legs on a butterfly

• yellow and black wings

• 2 antenna