Inquiry skills are investigation abilities that help people learn about the world. Scientists use inquiry skills and the scientific method to find facts. The scientific method involves observing phenomena, forming a hypothesis, analyzing evidence, recording data, and drawing a conclusion by comparing the original hypothesis to results. Each step of the scientific method is important for conducting systematic research.

1. INQUIRY SKILLS
by Jaime D. Peña
Edited by Mister Valverde

2. WHAT ARE INQUIRY SKILLS?
Inquiry skills are investigation abilities. These
abilities help you learn about the world around us.
Just as detectives finding clues, scientists need
inquiry skills to find facts.
Scientists find these facts using the Scientific Method.

3. SCIENTIFIC METHOD
OBSERVING
HYPOTHESIS
ANALYZING
RECORDING DATA
CONCLUSION

4. SCIENTIFIC METHOD
OBSERVING
HYPOTHESIS
ANALYZING
RECORDING DATA
CONCLUSION
Observing is using our 5
senses to learn about things
around you.

5. SCIENTIFIC METHOD
OBSERVING
HYPOTHESIS
ANALYZING
RECORDING DATA
CONCLUSION
It is a prediction. It answers
the question: “What would
happen at the end of the
observation or experiment?”

6. SCIENTIFIC METHOD
OBSERVING
HYPOTHESIS
ANALYZING
RECORDING DATA
CONCLUSION
We need to analyze the
evidence we find. Compare
and contrast, finding
similarities and differences.

7. SCIENTIFIC METHOD
OBSERVING
HYPOTHESIS
ANALYZING
RECORDING DATA
CONCLUSION
Our memory can fail, that’s
why it is smart idea to write
everything we see, smell,
hear, taste, or feel.

8. SCIENTIFIC METHOD
OBSERVING
HYPOTHESIS
ANALYZING
RECORDING DATA
CONCLUSION
Comparing your prediction
with what really happened
at the end of the
investigation or experiment.

9. GREAT JOB!