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, texture, taste.

Using numbers or measurements to describe something

An explanation 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 the same in the experiment

The thing that you are testing or changing in an experiment and it is graphed on the x-axis

What you are measuring or observing in an experiment and it is 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

A written summary of an experiment that uses evidence to prove what you learned