1 / 14

Inquiry

Inquiry. Doing Science!. Inquiry: Forming a question. Observation : An Observation is something you KNOW Observed using your 5 senses ( what you’ve seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched). Example:. Observations?. Inquiry: Forming a Question.

efuru
Download Presentation

Inquiry

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Inquiry Doing Science!

  2. Inquiry: Forming a question • Observation: • An Observation is something you KNOW • Observed using your 5 senses • (what you’ve seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched)

  3. Example: • Observations?

  4. Inquiry: Forming a Question Question - After observing things, what do you want to know? Let your curiosity go! • A good scientific question must be: • Testable • Measurable • Include variables • Independent Variable– something you change to see if it affects your results of the experiment in some way • When doing an investigation, you can only change one variable at a time. Why? • Dependent Variable -- The thing that we measure. (being affected by the thing we change).

  5. Inquiry: Forming a Question • Background- What do you know about the question that will help you? • Inference- An inference is something you think you know. You are explaining about how you think something works or why you think something happened.

  6. Example: • What do you know? • Inferences?

  7. Inquiry: Forming a Question • Background- What do you know about the question that will help you? • Inference- An inference is something you think you know. You are explaining about how you think something works or why you think something happened. • Hypothesis - A scientific, testable prediction based on observations. (What do you think is going to happen and why) An inference to your question!

  8. Inquiry: Designing an Experiment • Materials - The things you need to complete the experiment • Procedure - The directions, steps, and drawings for the way to get the answer to your question. • Repeat at least 3x • Why?

  9. Inquiry: Collecting & Presenting Data • Qualitative Observations – describe events during an experiment by sight, touch, smell, taste, or hearing • Quantitative Observations – describes events during an experiment by measuring it (mass, volume, etc…) and has NUMBERS!

  10. Inquiry: Collecting & Presenting Data • Table: A place to write your data • Make it before you do the experiment (why?) • Meaningful title • UNITS! Number of drops on a coin Coin Drops Table Number of Drops of Water on Coins using a Quarter and Dime

  11. Inquiry: Collecting & Presenting Data Graph: Puts data in visual form • Meaningful title • Axis labels • Consistent scale • UNITS! Number of Drops of Water on Coins using a Quarter and Dime # of drops Type of Coin

  12. Inquiry: Analysis and Conclusion • Analysis: How did it go? • Explain and discuss observations • What do the results mean? • Any problems or errors that could have messed up your data? • Limitations: Things that we don’t have but would like to have to do the experiment the best way possible.

  13. Analysis and Conclusion • Conclusion: The answer to your question • Correct Hypothesis? • Yes or No • How do you know? • Use your data and observations to support your conclusion. SUPPORT YOUR ANSWER!! • What does it mean for the world?

More Related