Gabbie_Science_Gr4_1Q_Scientific Skills and Attitudes

SCIENTIFIC SKILLS

Scientists possess various process skills that help them gather Information and draw conclusions.

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Scientists possess various ________________that help them gather Information and draw conclusions.

• scientific skills

• process skills

Classifying involves grouping things into smaller categories based on similar properties or given criteria.

Comparing and contrasting objects is to determine similarities and differences among them.

Inferring is the process of providing a temporary explanation based on your observations.

Predicting involves stating the outcome of a future event based on patterns of evidence.

Measuring is comparing the size, distance, time, volume, area, mass, weight, or temperature based on a standard. The standard may be

measuring tools such as a ruler, thermometer, and graduated cylinder.

Communicating is when you transform observations or data into an understandable format. You show the results of your experiment through written reports, diagrams, tables, charts, or graphs.

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_______________ involves grouping things into smaller categories based on similar properties or given criteria.

• Measuring

• Predicting

• Inferring

• Comparing and contrasting

• Classifying

____________________ objects is to determine similarities and differences among them.

• Measuring

• Predicting

• Inferring

• Comparing and contrasting

• Classifying

___________________ is the process of providing a temporary explanation based on your observations.

• Measuring

• Predicting

• Inferring

• Comparing and contrasting

• Classifying

________________involves stating the outcome of a future event based on patterns of evidence.

• Measuring

• Predicting

• Inferring

• Comparing and contrasting

• Classifying

_______________is comparing the size, distance, time, volume, area, mass, weight, or temperature based on a standard. The standard may be measuring tools such as a ruler, thermometer, and graduated cylinder.

• Measuring

• Predicting

• Inferring

• Comparing and contrasting

• Classifying

_______________is when you transform observations or data into an understandable format. You show the results of your experiment through written reports, diagrams, tables, charts, or graphs.

• Measuring

• Predicting

• Inferring

• Comparing and contrasting

• Communicating

Measuring is comparing the size, distance, time, volume, area, mass, weight, or temperature based on a standard. The standard may be

measuring tools such as a ruler, thermometer, and graduated cylinder.

Are you familiar with different measuring tools? Try to match the laboratory tools with the things they measure.

1. ruler

• a. air temperature

• b. volume of water

• c. mass of an object

• d. length of a shoe box

• e. time traveled by a car