4th Grade Unit1 Lesson 1

The boy is in the water.

• Observation
• Inference

Information gathered from your senses or from scientific tools.

• Constant

• Inference

• Scientific Method

• Observation

The process scientists follow to conduct investigations.

• Observation

• Constant

• Test Variable

• Scientific Method

Ways to conduct an investigation

• Research something in a library or on the internet

• Ask an expert

• Make a model

• Take careful notes and record observations overtime

• All of these

In order to prove or disprove a hypothesis scientists must do an investigation or an experiment to gather

• Conclusions

• Evidence

• Models

• Investigations

Which of the following is not an observation based on the picture?

• There are two animals

• There is probably a storm coming

• The animals are brown

• One animal is smaller than the other animal

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

• scientific method
• recipe
• data collection
• metric system

A prediction

• Data

• Observation

• a good educated guess

• Test

Scientists ask this at the beginning of an experiment

• Question

• Data

• Observation

• Hypothesis

The results and what you learned during an experiment is called

• conclusion

• data

• observation

• hypothesis