Basic Science Process Skills: Inferring (Research I)
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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.
Basic Science Process Skills: Inferring (Research I)
- 2. Inference is an assumption that is based on observations.
- 4. Inferring The skill of inferring 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 to the critical thinking skills - find causes, reason, and conclude.
- 6. Inferring An interpretation you make or a conclusion you draw from your observation.
- 7. Inferring is to derive aditional 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 How do you make an INFEREN
- 11. What do you observe about the picture?
- 13. When you draw a conclusion from your observations, you are making
- 14. B. Study the table below and try to think of other reason(s) possible in each of the
- 16. Identify each statement as an observation or an inference.
- 17. The leaves on the tree are moving, so the wing must be blowing.
- 18. The leaves on the tree are moving.
- 19. A deer was on the trail recently.
- 20. There is a deer track on this trail.
- 21. The tire is flat.
- 22. The tire has a leak.
- 24. The dog is angry.
- 25. The boy is crying.
- 26. The boy must be hungry.
- 29. Classifying Is grouping things based on their common characteristics.
- 30. Classifying Some ways to group things are by size, color, shape, texture, or any other characteristics.