Science Process Skills

Inferring

W. Connell
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Predicting

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1. What science skill are you using if you are
separating your crayons into piles according
to color?
Your answer:
Predicting

4. What science skill are you using if you think

the football team will win their next game
since they have won all their other games?
Your answer:
Measuring

Researching
Classifying
Observing
Inferring
Predicting
Communicating

2. What science skill are you using if you are

building a replica of the Mayflower?
Your answer:
Inferring

5. What science skill are you using if you are

teaching a friend how to play a game?
Your answer:
Classifying

Measuring
Classifying
Inferring
Observing
Communicating
Modeling

3. What science skill are you using if you smell

smoke?
Your answer:
Observing

Classifying

6. What science skill would you use if you were

finding out how far it is from the door of your
classroom to your desk?
Your answer:
Measuring

Communicating

Observing

Inferring

Classifying

Observing

7. What science skill are you using if you are

grouping rocks as sedimentary, metamorphic,
or igneous?
Your answer:
Communicating

10. What science skill are you using if you are

looking at different salts and noticing their
color and crystal size?
Your answer:
Observing

Measuring

Researching

Inferring

Communicating

Classifying

Classifying

8. What science skill are you using if you are

suggesting a possible explanation for the
results of an experiment?
Your answer:
Researching

11. What science skill are you using when you are
using your five senses?
Your answer:
Measuring

Observing
Observing
Inferring
Communicating
Communicating
Hypothesizing

9. What science skill are you using if you are

using clay, string, and other materials to show
the planets in the solar system?

12. Comparing an unknown value to a known

value.
Your answer:
Classifying

Your answer:
Modeling
Communicating
Classifying

Classifying

Inferring

Measuring

Modeling

13. State ahead of time what you think will

happen based upon what you already know.
Your answer:
Organizing

16. Sharing information

Your answer:
Communicating

Measuring
Predicting
Organizing
Classifying
Predicting
Modeling

17. Group things based upon how they are alike.

14. What science skill are you using when you
put data into charts and graphs?

Your answer:
Inferring

Your answer:
Measuring
Communicating
Classifying
Measuring
Organizing
Classifying
Inferring

18. What science skill are you using if you go to

the library to find information?
15. Use a copy of what you are studying to help
explain it.

Your answer:
Measuring

Your answer:
Hypothesizing
Observing
Predicting
Researching

Inferring

Your answer:
Analyzing
19. What science skill are you using when you tell
what you think the answer to your problem
will be?
Your answer:
Observing

Organizing

Observing

Communicating

Researching

Hypothesizing

Communicating

23. What science skill are you using when you

record data into a table?
Your answer:
Measuring

20. What science skill are you using when you

listen for a train coming down the track?
Your answer:
Measuring

Classifying

Inferring

Classifying

Organizing

Observing

Communicating

24. What science skill are you using when you

draw a picture while someone tells you how to
draw it without looking at the picture?
Your answer:
Classifying

21. What science skill are you using when you

group substances as solids, liquids, or gases?
Your answer:
Researching

Inferring

Communicating
Classifying
Measuring
Observing

Measuring
25. What science skill are you using when you
make a replica of the earth?
Your answer:
Analyzing
22. What science skill are you using if you are
carefully studying your science notes?

Classifying

Modeling

Researching