1. Scientific Inquiry

2. What should you always do before starting a science activity?
Read all the instructions very carefully

3. What should you do if there is an accident?
Notify the teacher (this is the FIRST step)
Secure the area
Assist the teacher if asked
Keep calm and keep others calm

4. What is data?
The information you collect during an experiment

5. Why do scientists communicate their results in written reports?
So other scientists can repeat their experiments and make the data and conclusions valid
Shares the knowledge with the scientific community and the world

6. What is a hypothesis?
An educated prediction or inference about what you think will happen during the experiment

7. What is the order of steps for the Scientific Inquiry?
Ask questions about a problem
Do initial research to see what is already known about the topic and the variables
Form a hypothesis
Design an experiment (materials, procedures)
Carry out the experiment
Collect data (organize it in tables and graphs)
Analyze data (look for patterns or trends)
State a conclusion based on your results
Communicate the results to other scientists
Ask questions for further research or investigation

8. Why is it important to ask more questions at the end of your experiment?
Looking for further areas of study/research
Trying to decide what else might effect the variables
Continues the cycle of inquiry

9. What is a trial?
When you run through your experiment one time and collect a piece of data

10. What are controls (controlled variables)?
All of the variables that the scientist keeps the same so that he/she knows that what is being changed by him/her is causing the changes in the measured variables

11. What is a independent variable?
What the scientist is changing in the experiment to see if it causes measurable changes in the dependent variable

12. What is the dependent variable?
What the scientist is measuring in the experiment.

13. What does it mean to control a variable?
The scientist keeps it the same in an experiment so something else can be changed and something can be measured.

14. What is the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on evidence they gather?
Scientific inquiry

15. Why must a question be testable?
So that an experiment can be designed and the question answered.

16. Scientific Inquiry often begins with a _____________ or a ______________ about something that has been observed.
Problem or a question

17. What is the difference between quantitative and qualitative observations
Quantitative : measured by numbers
Qualitative: characteristics, qualities

18. Why do you graph your data?
It makes it easier to see patterns and trends

19. What is the difference between predicting and inferring?
Predicting: based on past experience and evidence
Inferring: based on prior knowledge and observation

20. What is a conclusion?

21. A conclusion is a summary of what you have learned from an experiment.
In drawing your conclusion, you should ask yourself whether the data support the hypothesis. You also need to consider whether you collected enough data. After reviewing the data, you decide that the evidence supports your original hypothesis