Hoffman Scientific Method Vocabulary 2024

an evaluation of a person's ideas, experiments, and research

• critique

• summary

• narrative

• hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-4

an explanation for or against a scientific idea

• a hypothesis

• scientific argument

• a random guess

• a fictional story

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

an orally communicated message to an audience

• presentation

• document

• email

• text message

a written piece organized with an introduction, body, and conclusion, using proper grammar and spelling

• report

• essay

• summary

• note

mistakes that occur during an experiment

• bar graphs

• theories

• errors

• variables

a single test of the experiment; a good experiment has multiples of these

• experiment

• trial

• hypothesis

• observation

factors kept the same or constant for all experimental groups

• independent variables

• dependent variables

• random variables

• controlled variables

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

a factor or condition in an experiment

• variable

• constant

• control

• hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

to look at data carefully, looking for relationships, patterns, and solutions between things tested in the experiment

• analyze

• ignore

• summarize

• guess

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

the factor you measure in the experiment

• independent variable

• control or constant variable

• dependent variable

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-4