Week 1

an objective, verifiable observation (ex: water boils at 100 degrees Celsius)

• Fact

• Principle

• Law

• Theory

• Observation

a statement based on repeated experimental observations that describes an aspect of the world

• Fact

• Principle

• Law

• Theory

• Observation

describes patterns in nature

• Fact

• Principle

• Law

• Theory

• Observation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

an explanation of an observed phenomenon that NEVER becomes a fact or law

• Fact

• Principle

• Law

• Theory

• Observation

description of something you can see, smell, touch, taste, or hear

• Principle

• Law

• Theory

• Observation

• Inference

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

a guess about an object or outcome based on your senses

• Theory

• Observation

• Inference

• Law

• Fact

describes qualities such as color or size

• Qualitative

• Quantitative

• Independent Variable

• Dependent Variable

uses numbers to measure something

• Qualitative

• Quantitative

• Independent Variable

• Dependent Variable

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

what the experimenter will deliberately change or manipulate in the investigation (usually on the X-axis)

• Inference

• Dependent Variable

• Independent Variable

• Constant

what changes in response to a variable being manipulated (on the Y-axis)

• Constant

• Experimental Group

• Dependent Variable

• Independent Variable