1. Science Starter

2. Science Starter

3. Science Starter
Based on the picture, what is the difference between precision and accuracy?
Discuss with your seat partner after coming up with your own
answer.

4. Science Starter
Classify each example as a qualitative observation or quantitative observation. One example has more than one right answer.
The Professor of Peace wore a red-striped banner across his forehead.
Clopes has 9 bracelets around his wrist.
The Doctor has a swollen lip.
The Whisper talks very loudly on Fridays.
There are twenty-five intelligent students in science class today.
Go back and underline words that are qualitative and circle words that are quantitative.

5. Science Starter First, make observations about the following picture:
Second, make inferences about the same picture:
Classify the following sentences as qualitative or quantitative observations:
Mr. Cullen dropped forty-three coins onto his dresser top.
Some dinosaurs had breath that smelled rancid.
Is the following an observation or an inference?

6. Thinking like a scientist
The Nature of Science
Thinking like a scientist

7. Science is…
1. What do you think of when you think of science?
2. Have you ever done science? What did you do?

8. Bill Gates
Albert Einstein
Neil Degrasse Tyson
Stephen Hawking
Jane Goodall
Rosalind Frankin
Dr. Mae C. Jemison

9. Science is…
Which of the people shown on this page are scientists? How can you tell?

10. Objective 1
What are the skills scientist use to learn about the world?

11. Scientists use many different skills to learn more about the world.
Main Idea
Scientists use many different skills to learn more about the world.
Observing
Inferring
Predicting
Classifying
Evaluating
Making
Models

12. Observing Using the senses to gather information.. Two types:
a. Quantitative – observations that
deal with numbers or amounts
b. Qualitative – observations that
deal with descriptions
attempts to understand meanings that people give to their deeds, experiences, or to other phenomena

13. Quantitative Qualitative Observations Examples: Examples: Measurements
Calculations
Examples:
Color
Smell
Taste
Sound
Texture

14. Inferring Trying to explain or interpret what you
observe based on reasoning from what you already know.
Attempt to explain or interpret observations based on the evidence and/or our experience.
What has happened.

15. Predicting
Making a forecast of what will happen in the future based on what you already know.
An educated guess about a future event.  A PREDICTION may or may not happen, but it should be logical
What will happen.

16. Inferences vs. predictions
Example: A broken egg is on the floor by the
table.
Inference
Prediction
It rolled of the table
It will stain the floor

17. You decide see a pile of leaves, a rake, and green grass Observation
A kid will jump in the leaves
It is Fall  OR  Someone raked the leaves into a pile.
Observation
Inference
Prediction

18. Classifying
Grouping together of items that are alike in some way.

19. Evaluating
Compares observations and data to reach a conclusion about them
Text example:
Could Jane reach a valid conclusion about chimpanzee behavior based on one chimpanzee?
No, she would need to compare Jomeo’s behavior with all other chimps to reach a valid conclusion

20. Making Models
A representation of complex objects
or processes
Models are a very important part of science
Maps, miniatures, illustrations, graphs and even mathematical equations are all types of models