1. Observe this picture.

2. Now write down as many facts/details as you remember about the picture.
Next compare your list with the students at your table.
Which table observed the most details?

4. Science A way of learning about the natural world.
Scientist use skills such as observing, inferring, predicting, classifying, and making models to learn more about the world.

5. Observing Using one or more of your senses to gather information.
Sight
Hearing
Touch
Taste
Smell
Quantitative Observations -deal with a number, or amount.
Qualitative Observations -deal with descriptions that cannot be expressed with numbers. (using your senses)

6. Inferring
When you explain or interpret the things you observe.
Making an inference
This is not a random GUESS! It is an educated and well-thought out explanation of what you believe you observed.

7. Predicting
Making a forecast of what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence.
Predictions and inferences are closely related. An inference is typically an attempt to explain what is or has happened. A prediction is a forecast of what you believe will happen.

8. Classifying The process of grouping together items that are alike in some way.
Making Models
Creating representation of complex objects or processes.

9. The study of living things
Marine Biologist
Biologists
Health Care
Botanist
Life Science
The study of living things