Science and Engineering practices

The way scientist Study and learn about the world

Using your five senses to gather information about something

using your senses to describe the characteristics of an object color or texture, taste

Using numbers or measurements to describe something

An example of an observation based on prior knowledge

A prediction based on prior knowledge. Always written in an if then statement

Any factor that can be manipulated, controlled for or measured in an experiment.

What must stay in the same experiment

The thing that you are testing or changing in an experiment and its graphed on the X-axis

What you are measuring or observing in an experiment and its graphed on the Y-axis

Claim-Evidence-Reasoning

Is the answer to the question you are trying to answer

Scientific data that supports your claim.

The how or why the evidence supports our claim; scientific rule

You state weather your prediction was confirmed or not and try to explain your results