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Basic Science Process Skills: Inferring (Research I)
The document discusses basic science process skills, focusing on the concept of inferring from observations to draw conclusions and understand cause and effect relationships. It also highlights the importance of critical thinking in making inferences and includes examples to differentiate between observations and inferences. Additionally, the document covers the skill of classifying by grouping items based on shared characteristics.
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Basic Science Process Skills: Inferring (Research I)
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- 2. Inference is an assumption thatis based on observations.
- 4. Inferring The skill ofinferring may involve identifying cause and effect relationships from events observed, identifying the limits of inferences, nd testing the validity of s.
- 5. Inferring Also relates tothe critical thinking skills - find causes, reason, and conclude.
- 6. Inferring An interpretation youmake or a conclusion you draw from your observation.
- 7. Inferring is to deriveaditional information from observations by relating them to experiences or by reasoning out logically. Observing giving attention to what you see, feel, touch, see or smell. The main purpose is to learn about the world around us.
- 8. By Connor Hamilton Howdo you make an INFEREN
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- 11. What do you observeabout the picture?
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- 13. When you draw aconclusion from your observations, you are making
- 14. B. Study thetable below and try to think of other reason(s) possible in each of the
- 16. Identify each statement asan observation or an inference.
- 17. The leaves onthe tree are moving, so the wing must be blowing.
- 18. The leaves onthe tree are moving.
- 19. A deer wason the trail recently.
- 20. There is adeer track on this trail.
- 21. The tire isflat.
- 22. The tire hasa leak.
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- 24. The dog isangry.
- 25. The boy iscrying.
- 26. The boy mustbe hungry.
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- 29. Classifying Is grouping things basedon their common characteristics.
- 30. Classifying Some ways togroup things are by size, color, shape, texture, or any other characteristics.