Science skills Used to gather information Observing Using
Science skills • Used to gather information
Observing • Using your senses to describe what it is your looking at. Predicting • Stating ahead of time what will happen based on what you already know.
Measuring • When you compare an unknown value to a known value. Inferring • Form a conclusion based upon facts without making complete observations. Using prior knowledge
Classifying • When you group things based on how they are alike. Organizing • Working in an orderly way.
Modeling • When you use or make a copy of what you are studying Analyzing • When you study information carefully.
Observing • Using your senses to describe something Inferring • Form a conclusion based upon facts without making complete observations. Prediction
More examples • What observations can we make about this picture? • What can we infer based on this picture?
What observations can we make from these pictures?
http: //www. docslide. com/observation-inference/
Hint: There are 3 images. An old lady A young woman A man with a big brown mustache
Bunny duck
Your right brain tried to say the color, but your left brain was reading the word
These circles are not moving, your brain is making them appear to move. Try focusing on one circle. It will stop moving.
Are these dots moving?
Online activity • http: //www. slideshare. net/cmsdsquires/infer ence-and-observation-activity-presentation
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