Scientific Inquiry

Why are approved eye protection devices (such as goggles) worn in the lab?

• A. To improve your vision
• B. To make you look like a bug
•  C. To give you headaches
•  D. To protect eyes around chemicals, heat, or glassware

What should you do if you break glass in the lab?

• Tell the teacher.
• Sweep up the glass.
• Pick up the glass with your hands.
• Ignore it; the teacher will clean it up when she sees it later.

Keep your work area ___________ at the end of the lab.

• messy

• dirty

• neat and clean

• disorganized

If you are not sure what to do during a lab activity:

• guess
• change lab partners
• ask a teacher
• just sit quietly and do nothing

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

• scientific method
• recipe
• data collection
• metric system

An educated guess

• Observe

• Hypothesis

• Data

• Conclusion

When you use your 5 senses to gather information, you are making a/an

• Observation

• Inference

• Scientific Wondering

Which of the following statements is an inference about the picture

• The vase is broken.
• The girls' bow is blue and purple.
• The girl broke the vase.
• The girl has blonde hair.

She is holding an umbrella

• observation
• inference

Does adding salt to water change the amount of time it takes to freeze?

• Testable Question

• Non-Testable Question

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