Intro to Science Unit Vocabulary

Using your senses to gather information (what you notice)

A series of steps scientists follow

A testable explanation of a problem

A procedure that tests the claim

This is created based on your observation and written as a question

A testable explanation

A procedure to test a claim

A statement explaining the claim

A procedure that tests the claim

A statement explaining the claim

Factors that might change

A group that does not get the independent variable

Observations that use your senses to observe results (these observations use words/adjectives to describe what we observe)

Observations made with instruments and measured

Observations that use numbers

Observations that are not testable

Observations made with instruments and measured to observe the results (these observations use numbers)

Observations that use your senses

Observations that use words/adjectives

Observations that are not testable

A possible explanation/guess/conclusion about an observation

A testable explanation of a problem

A procedure that tests the hypothesis

Factors that might change in an experiment

Claim

Reasoning

Evidence

Observation

Reasoning

Evidence

Inference

Problem

Dependent Variable

Reasoning

Independent Variable

Inference

Conclusion

Data

Inference

Observation