OBSERVATION, INFERENCE AND PREDICTIONS

1. OBSERVATION, INFERENCE AND PREDICTIONS How are these things used in science?

2. OBSERVATION • Using your 5 senses to gather information from the world around you. • A noting and recording of…. FACTS!!! • Observation: Using your five senses to gather information…sight, touch, hearing, taste, and smell Ex: ) The fruit is sticky and orange in color

3. TWO TYPES OF OBSERVATION • QUALITATIVE: L= letters. Descriptions such as color, odor, sounds, etc. Example: The green plant. • QUANTITATIVE: N = numbers. Measurement or quantity (counting) Example: The plant grew 2cm in a week.

4. INFERENCE • Inference: A logical explanation of what happened…based on your observations. An inference is correct as long as it makes sense!! Ex: ) An apple core sits on the plate besides Dexter. He finishes wiping his hands and puts a napkin on a plate…What can you INFER?

5. PREDICTION • A prediction is a guess about what will happen in the future. In science your prediction can also be called a hypothesis. • Ex:) If I test drive a Kia optima, a Nissan maxima and a Chrysler 300 then I think the Kia will have better gas mileage. ( The underlined part is the part of the hypothesis that is the prediction.)

6. Directions: • Look at the following pictures and follow your teachers directions to write either an observation, inference or prediction about each one.

11. Directions: • Look at the following phrases identify if it is an observation, inference or prediction. Write O for observation, I for inference or P for prediction.

12. O, I, or P? 1. The weather forecast for Friday is party cloudy.

13. O, I, or P? 2. There is another person standing in the doorway, Mrs. Williams is absent.

14. O, I, or P? • 3. The lamp is turned on.

15. O, I, or P? • 4. It is a cloudy day. It is going to rain.

16. O, I, or P? • 5. The girl standing in the checkout line at target has on a white collared shirt and blue pants. She must be a Beck student.

17. GRADED CLASSWORK!! Write your answers on a sheet of NB paper to turn in for a grade! • Look at the following picture and follow your teachers directions to write either an observation, inference or prediction about each one. • 1. Write 1 observation about the picture • 2. Write 1 inference about the picture • 3. Write 1 prediction about the picture

19. Look at the following picture and follow your teachers directions to write either an observation, inference or prediction about each one. • 4. Write 1 observation about the picture • 5. Write 1 inference about the picture • 6. Write 1 prediction about the picture

21. For numbers 4-10, look at the following phrases identify if it is an observation, inference or prediction. Write O for observation, I for inference or P for prediction.

22. O, I, or P? • 7. There are lights on a tree. It must be the holidays.

23. O, I, or P? • 8. I will get a new game system for my birthday.

24. O, I, or P? • 9. The wall is green.

25. O, I, or P? • 10. My teacher gave Megan a Card and some candy, It must be her birthday.

26. TURN IN YOUR PAPER!!! • Make sure your Heading is on your paper and turn your paper into the tray!! • Homework Head start!