SSA: NATURE OF SCIENCE 6-8TH

It helps scientists organize their thoughts and experiments systematically.

It makes experiments more fun.

It guarantees that all experiments will be successful.

It is only used in chemistry.

The group that receives the treatment or change

The group that is purposely changed

The group that does not receive any change or treatment

The group where everything is kept the same

Repetition by the same scientist

Replication by other scientists

Ignoring data that does not fit the hypothesis

Taking accurate notes and pictures

Quantitative data uses senses, qualitative data uses numbers

Quantitative data is measurable with instruments, qualitative data is based on descriptions

Qualitative data is always more accurate than quantitative data

Qualitative data is used for graphs, quantitative data is not

Table

Bar

Scatterplot

Histogram

The difference between experiments and models

What characterizes science and scientific explanations

How to conduct a field study

The process of making a bar graph

Experiment

Field Study

Model

Survey

A theory explains why something happens, while a law describes what happens under certain conditions.

A law explains why something happens, while a theory describes what happens under certain conditions.

Both theories and laws explain why things happen.

Both theories and laws describe what happens under certain conditions.

Testing/Experimentation

Evidence

General community consensus

Personal opinion

Ask a testable question, Do background research, Form a hypothesis

Collect data, Analyze results, Draw conclusions

Make observations, Conduct an experiment, Share results

Identify variables, Make a prediction, Test the hypothesis