6th Grade

    Our first unit will be "What is Science" where we will look at understanding the following.


    • Science and the Natural World
    • Thinking Like a Scientist
    • Scientific Inquiry

    Terms you will understand for the first unit include:
    • science
    • observing
    • quantitative observation
    • qualitative observation
    • inferring
    • predicting
    • classifying
    • evaluating
    • making models
    • skepticism
    • ethics
    • bias (personal, cultural, experimental)
    • objective
    • subjective
    • deductive and inductive reasoning
    • scientific inquiry
    • hypothesis
    • variable (manipulated, responding)
    • controlled experiment
    • data
    • scientific theory
    • scientific law