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Notes Thinking Like a Scientist
  • Copy all underlined parts.
  • Read pgs. 6-12.
  • Objective Know how to use inference, prediction,
    and classification.

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What is Science?
  • Science is learning about the natural world
    through observation and experimentation.

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Science Skills
  • Scientists use skills such as observing,
    inferring, predicting, and classifying to learn
    about the world.

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Observing
  • Observing is using one or more of your senses to
    gather information.
  • Your five senses are site, smell, hearing, taste,
    and touch.

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Observing
  • How much of this picture will you be able to
    remember?

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Types of Observations
  • There are two types of observations
  • Quantitative
  • Qualitative

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Quantitative
  • Quantitative observations deal with numbers and
    amounts.
  • How many squares?

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Qualitative
  • Qualitative observations are descriptions that
    cant be expressed by numbers.
  • Color
  • Shape
  • Features

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Inferring
  • Inferring is explaining or interpreting your
    observations.
  • Inferences arent guesses, they are based on
    reason.

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Inferring
  • What can you infer from this picture?

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Predicting
  • Predicting means making a forecast of what will
    happen in the future based on past experience or
    evidence.

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Predicting
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Classifying
  • Classifying is the process of grouping together
    items that are alike in some way.

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Classifying
  • Put these organisms into categories.

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Making Models
  • Making models involves creating representations
    of complex objects or processes.

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Making Models
  • Models help people study and understand things
    that are complex or that cant be observed
    directly.
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