3. Using the 5 senses, describe what you see, hear,
smell, feel, and possibly taste.
If you open a box of chocolates and you want to
know what is inside of it you might:
Look at the shape of it.
Shake it to see if it’s hollow.
Smell it incase you can smell fruit or nuts
Feel for nuts or other additives.
Taste it!
4. Using tools such as rulers, scales, and numbers
to compare variables
How many apples do you need to equal one
pineapple?
5. Grouping objects by breaking them into
common properties.
For Example dumping out a bucket of legos and
dividing them by size and color.
6. Believing something to be correct because
you’ve seen it happen before.
When I go fishing and my bobber goes under, I
believe it is a fish because I have caught a fish
with a bobber before.
7. Based on the knowledge I have, this is what I
believe is going to happen.
I have made cookies before so I know that my
oven requires an extra minute to bake cookies
to perfection.
8. Using the same item and adjusting one thing to
see what changes.
When I use an apple corer to peel apples what
happens when I change the blade setting?
9. This is what I believe will happen next.
If I put a seed in soil and give it water and
sunlight it will grow into a plant.
10. Putting together evidence and knowledge to
explain why something happens.
Certain fish are attached to certain movements.
Based on the movement in the water, and the
size of the fish, specific lures/baits you will catch
specific species of fish
11. Recording your data on paper and being able to
verbally explain what happened.
Using a specific fishing lure and documenting
what kind of fish you catch on it. Being able to
share that information with other fishers.
13. Hear – I hear the mixer blending the
ingredients.
See- I see the ingredients turn into dough.
Taste- I taste the blended ingredients
Feel – I shape the dough into balls and put them
on the cookie sheet.
Smell – I can smell the cookies baking
14. Using cups to measure dry or wet ingredients
like flour, water, and milk
Using Tablespoons and teaspoons to measure
small amounts of salt or baking soda.
Preheating the oven to the correct temperature.
15. Using the exact amounts of ingredients to get
the chemical reaction needed to create the
cookie dough.
Having the exact temperature in the oven to
change the ingredients from dough into cookie.
16. If I don’t cook the dough long enough what will
happen?
If I cook the dough too long what will happen?
What if I don’t add enough baking soda?
What if I forget an ingredient?
How will it taste if I add something different like
nuts?
17. I can write out my recipe with specific
measurements for someone else to follow.
I can bake cookies with my granddaughter and
teach her how to measure out the ingredients.
18. Popcorn isn’t the same without butter on it!
What would happen if the temperature of the
butter varied?
Manipulated Variable – butter
Responding variable – popcorn
Control variables - heat (melted or not melted
butter), container, amount of butter
If the butter wasn’t heated it would sit on the top
of the popcorn. If the butter is heated to melted,
it would drizzle over the popcorn the way we like
it!
19. A descriptive investigation is a scientific
investigation that collects data which measures
or describes objects or events. it collects
qualitative & quantitative data. it includes a
question, but no hypothesis ; no variables are
manipulated .
20. Understanding how to group objects and
organisms according to properties or traits.
21. Focuses on how variables could be related and
what happens when one of those variables is
changed.
22. What do each of the seeds look like?
Which one is the smallest? The thinnest?
What do I know about planting seeds?
Are they planted with the right side up?
How deep do they need to be planted?
Is it warm enough? Do they have enough sunlight?
Is the soil appropriate for the seeds?
How long does it take for them to germinate?
