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Vocabulary Match: In this section of the test, the students will have to match the word with the letter of the definition provided. There will be extra definitions so that one- to- one matching will not work. Your children will have highlighted the key words in their study sheet to help them differentiate between meanings.  (1 point each)

  • Philosopher: a person who thinks of a large idea, observes the world around him and then uses thinking to figure out an answer. 

  • Scientist: a person who thinks of a question, sets up a way to test for an answer, and gets results that tell him what the answer to his question is. 

  • Thermometer: a weather instrument used to measure temperature.

  • System: A group of small things working together as a whole to work to have something happen.

  • Closed system: Where all the small things are working in balance and nothing is added and nothing is taken away while work is being done.

  • Open system: Where all the small things are not balanced and things are being added or subtracted as work is being done.

  • Quantitative measurement: makes things exact, in that it describes what happens, using numbers and measurement.

  • Qualitative measurement: is more descriptive in nature and uses words to tell what happened.

  • Scale: Scientifically, means measurement lines which mark changes in steady, equal and equal amounts.

  • Aristotle: Used logic and observation to describe the range of heat. 

  • Santorio Santorio: Was the first to use numbers to describe a change in heat.

  • Fahrenheit: Used three fixed points with 32 degrees being where water froze and 96 degrees being the temperature of a human.

  • Celsius: Used two fixed points with 100 being where water froze and 0 being where water boiled.

 

The next items are a series of short answers which require them to look or read an example of an experiment we have already done and then state what the example is and explain their rational. (Up to 3 points for each.)

  Hints for a full three points-

  1. A topic sentence

  2. Full sentences

  3. The correct response

  4. At least two of the forms of proof

  indicating a qualitative a quantitative measurement

Qualitative

The air was as cold as the inside of the freezer part of a fridge  

Proof:  

  1.  Associated with Aristotle  

  2. Used comparisons to tell the temperature    

  3. Uses the words like or as   

  4. Isn’t exact

Quantitative

The temperature measured 15 degrees Celsius at 10 o’clock in the morning on Saturday the 14.

Proof:  

  1. Associated with the three other men.

  2. Uses numbers and amounts  

  3. Is factual 

  4. Is exact

 

 

a drawing of an open or closed system

Open:

Proof: The system doesn’t have a balance in all the parts.  Things are being added and subtracted.

Closed:

Proof:  The system is balanced in all the parts.        Nothing is added or subtracted.

 

For the scientific method, the students must identify, order and assign examples of the scientific method. There is one point assigned for the identification and the order. There will be several extra possible steps given. 

Background Information: What the experimenter knows before he or she starts the experiment.

Question: The large general idea the experimenter is interested in.

Hypothesis: What the experimenter thinks is going to happen in an exact and measurable way.

Materials and Procedure: A listing of what is needed and the way the experiment should be run.

Results and Conclusion: The information is collected and then looked at for patterns and observations that can be proved. The information is charted numerically. Finally, what happened is compared to the hypothesis and an answer to the question is formed.

 Then, there will be descriptions of each step. The students must match the description with the step. Again, there will be more examples than steps. One point each. Examples follow below.

Background Information: Shweta remembered that when she added salt to the ice on the road the ice melted quickly. She thought that this might have something to do with how Fahrenheit came up with some of his thoughts.

Question: The large main question was that Brad wanted to find out about was the temperature of the water in the North Atlantic.

Hypothesis: We believe that the temperature will change by two degrees Celsius when baking soda is added to the mix. 

Materials and Procedure: First, after sealing the top of the bottle, Tanner will put it in the hot water.

Results and Conclusion: The pattern of the numbers was 4, 6 and 8, which meant that the temperature grew in equal amounts.

 The last section is graphing. First, the students will take a series of numbers and then find the range, the median and the mode of the numbers. One point for each item.

The range is the minimum and maximum of the numbers. It can be shown in two ways. Either as a range 2-8 or by a single digit. 6.

The median is the middle number of the range of numbers and it is obtained by knocking off the end numbers of the range until the center number is obtained.

The mode is the numbers that occurs most often. There can be more than one mode in a range.

Secondly, the students will be given some information, which they can categorize and have numerical data on. They will have to sort the information and then represent it using a line graph. There will be one point given for each of the following items.

  • A graph title

  • A heading for the category section

  • A heading for the numerical section

  • A 0,0 point

  • The intervals on the numbers are equal.

  • The data is correctly recorded on the graph.

  • The points are connected by a line.

  • The graph is neat and clear.

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January 06, 2004