6.1 Scientific Method

a way of understanding the natural world

• scientific method

• investigation

• science

• inferring

the process of grouping together items that are alike in some way

• investigating

• science

• inferring

• classifying

an interpretation based on observation and prior knowledge

• inferring

• investigating

• classifying

• science

comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion about them

• classifying

• investigating

• evaluating

• inferring

studying or researching a subject to discover facts or reveal new information

• investigating

• classifying

• inferring

• science

the process of creating representations of complex objects or processes

• science

• observing

• classifying

• making models

the process of using one or more of your senses to gather information

• investigating

• inferring

• making models

• observing

an observation that deals with a number or amount

• making models

• quantitative data

• qualitative data

• classifying

an observation that deals with characteristics that cannot be expressed in numbers

• inferring

• observing

• quantitative data

• qualitative data

the process of forecasting what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence

• inferring

• predicting

• observing

• scientific method