Transcript What is Science? Thinking Like A Scientist Key Words • • • • • • Observing Inferring Predicting Classifying Making Models Scientific Attitudes.

What is Science?
Thinking Like A Scientist
Key Words
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Observing
Inferring
Predicting
Classifying
Making Models
Scientific Attitudes
Observing
• Using one or more of your senses to gather
information
• Two types of observations: QUANTITATIVE and
QUALITATIVE
Five Senses
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Touch
Taste
Sight
Smell
Hearing
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a re n e e d e d t o s e e t h i s p i c t u re .
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T I F F (Un c o m p re s s e d ) d e c o m p re s s o r
a re n e e d e d t o s e e t h i s p i c t u re .
Quantitative Observations
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a re n e e d e d to s e e th i s p i c t u re .
• 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.
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.
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a re n e e d e d to s e e th i s p i c tu re .
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T I F F (U n c o m p re s s e d ) d e c o m p re s s o r
a re n e e d e d to s e e t h i s p i c t u re .
Qu i c k Ti m e ™ a n d a
TIF F (Un c o m p re s s e d ) d e c o m p re s s o r
a re n e e d e d to s e e th i s p ic tu re .
Inferring
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T I F F (U n c o m p r e s s e d ) d e c o m p re s s o r
a re n e e d e d t o s e e t h i s p i c t u re .
• 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
What do you infer….?
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T I F F (Un c o m p re s s e d ) d e c o m p re s s o r
a re n e e d e d t o s e e t h i s p i c t u re .
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.
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T I F F (U n c o m p r e s s e d ) d e c o m p re s s o r
a r e n e e d e d t o s e e t h i s p i c t u re .
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)
Example Prediction
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T I F F (Un c o m p re s s e d ) d e c o m p re s s o r
a re n e e d e d to s e e th i s p i c t u re .
• I think the rose in the sugar water will survive the
best because the plant food they give you when
purchasing roses contains sugar.
Classifying
• The process of
grouping together
items that are alike in
some way.
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T I F F (U n c o m p re s s e d ) d e c o m p re s s o r
a re n e e d e d t o s e e t h i s p i c t u re .
• Examples: movies,
books, clothing, food
Qu i c k Ti m e ™ a n d a
TIF F (Un c o m p re s s e d ) d e c o m p re s s o r
a re n e e d e d to s e e th i s p i c tu re .
Candy Classification
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T I F F (Un c o m p re s s e d ) d e c o m p re s s o r
a re n e e d e d t o s e e t h i s p i c t u re .
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Color
Taste
Shape
Wrapper/No Wrapper
Like/Don’t Like
Brand
Written on/Not Written on
Chewy/Hard
Models
• Creating a representation
of complex objects or
processes.
• Examples: globes, maps,
movie sets, posters
showing the atom
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T I F F (U n c o m p re s s e d ) d e c o m p re s s o r
a re n e e d e d to s e e th i s p i c t u re .
What Is Science?
Science At Work
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T I F F (Un c o m p re s s e d ) d e c o m p re s s o r
a re n e e d e d t o s e e t h i s p i c t u re .
Qu i c k T i m e ™ a n d a
T I F F (Un c o m p re s s e d ) d e c o m p re s s o r
a re n e e d e d t o s e e t h i s p i c t u re .
Qu i c k T i m e ™ a n d a
T I F F (Un c o m p re s s e d ) d e c o m p re s s o r
a re n e e d e d t o s e e t h i s p i c t u re .
Qu i c k T i m e ™ a n d a
T I F F (U n c o m p re s s e d ) d e c o m p re s s o r
a re n e e d e d to s e e th i s p i c t u re .
Studying the world around you!!!
5 Attributes of a Scientist
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Curiosity
Honesty
Open-Mindedness
Skepticism
Creativity
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T I F F (Un c o m p re s s e d ) d e c o m p re s s o r
a re n e e d e d to s e e th i s p i c t u re .
Qu i c k Ti m e ™ a n d a
TIF F (Un c o m p re s s e d ) d e c o m p re s s o r
a re n e e d e d to s e e th i s p i c tu re .
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….
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T I F F (U n c o m p re s s e d ) d e c o m p re s s o r
a re n e e d e d t o s e e t h i s p i c t u re .