1. Thinking Like A Scientist
What is Science?
Thinking Like A Scientist

2. Key Words Observing Inferring Predicting Classifying Making Models
Scientific Attitudes

3. Observing Using one or more of your senses to gather information
Two types of observations: QUANTITATIVE and QUALITATIVE

4. Five Senses
Touch
Taste
Sight
Smell
Hearing

5. Quantitative Observations
deal with a number or an amount
Examples:
1) There are 30 students in the science classroom.
2) There are 11 players on a soccer team.

6. Qualitative Observation
deal with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers
Examples:
1) Caden was wearing a blue jacket.
2) The orange juice tasted sweet.

7. Inferring Explaining or interpreting things you observe.
Using information you gathered to try and figure out what is going on.
NOT guessing wildly…using reasoning skills to try and explain what you see happening
Like putting pieces of a puzzle together

8. What do you infer….?

9. Possible Inferences She found an exciting new scientific phenomenon!
She made a big boo boo!
She is shocked by something she read in her textbook.

10. Predicting
Making a forecast of what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence.
NOT a guess…because you are using information from the past
Can be incorrect
Meteorologists (weather people) make predictions ALL of the time…when looking at current weather patterns they use past weather patterns to predict what type of weather is moving into the area!!! (Reason they are wrong at times)

11. Example Prediction
I think the rose in the sugar water will survive the best because the plant food they give you when purchasing roses contains sugar.

12. Classifying
The process of grouping together items that are alike in some way.
Examples: movies, books, clothing, food

13. Candy Classification Color Taste Shape Wrapper/No Wrapper
Like/Don’t Like
Brand
Written on/Not Written on
Chewy/Hard

14. Models Creating a representation of complex objects or processes.
Examples: globes, maps, movie sets, posters showing the atom

15. What Is Science?

16. Science At Work

17. Studying the world around you!!!

18. 5 Attributes of a Scientist
Curiosity
Honesty
Open-Mindedness
Skepticism
Creativity

19. Welcome 6th Grade Scientists!!!
You are on the journey to being great scientists.
Come to class excited and prepared to study the world around you!
Exciting things will be taking place….