Unit: Science & Technology

Lesson #1 Science and the Natural World

Essential Question: What skills do scientists use?

1.) A way of learning about the natural world Science

2.) Using one or more of your senses to gather Observinginformation

3.) An observation that deals with numbers Quantitative

4.) An observation that deals with descriptions Qualitative

What is one qualitative observation and one quantitative

observation about the chimp?

5.) When you explain or interpret Inferringthings that have happened or arehappening based on reasoning from what you know. This is not a guess.

What can you infer about the chimp and the termite mound?

6.) Making a statement or a claim about Prediction what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence

Make a prediction about what this angry chimp might do next?

7.) Grouping together of items that are Classifying alike in some way

8.) Comparing observations and data Evaluating to reach a conclusion

9.) Creating representations of complex Making modelsobjects or processes

Why is this map a model?

10.) This tool is used to recordTable the information collected from an experiment