Friday, August 27, 2010

NOS Vocabulary

Today students became masters of their own words! Then they shared with other students as they went around the room collecting science words and definitions from their classmates and I. This coming week we will be writing a story using the words in context and taking a quiz over them.

Also students received their first grade print out. Please be on the lookout for those this evening.

And lastly, congratulations to the Football Wildcats for the AWESOME victory over the South Sumter Raiders!!! Go BLUE!

NOS Vocab
1. Consistent –free from variation



2. Natural - of or occurring in nature


3. Scientific Law – a statement that summarizes a pattern in nature


4. Explain - tell how


5. Contrast –all the ways they are different


6. Deduce – draw a logical conclusion


7. Predict – what will happen next


8. Hypothesis – a proposed answer to a question


9. Observation – information obtained using the five senses


10. Science – a system of knowledge about the natural world


11. Testable- series of questions, problems, or physical responses designed to determine knowledge


12. Compare – tell the ways things are alike


13. Scientific Theory – a well tested explanation for a set of observations


14. Tentative – not certain


15. Inference – to predict using observation


16. empirical evidence – evidence that can be observed by many people and all will agree as to what they observed


17. accuracy - the closeness of a measurement to the true value of what is measured


18. precision – a gauge of how exact a measurement is

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