Standard+1+Investigation+and+Experimentation

1. What is a hypothesis?|
 * Standard 1.1**
 * 2. What is a common way of stating a hypothesis? ||
 * 3. What does an “If…, then …” statement represent? ||
 * 4. What do the results of an experiment do? ||
 * 5. What types of information are used to generate a hypothesis? ||
 * 6. What are some examples of reliable sources of information?* ||


 * Standard 1.2**


 * 1. How do you properly use various tools in the chemistry and physics lab? ||


 * Standard 1.3 and 1.9**

1. What are the safety procedures to be followed in the science lab?
 * 2. What is a laboratory safety contract? ||
 * 3. What is a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)? ||
 * 4. What is the school’s Chemical Hygiene Plan? ||
 * 5. How do you read a graduated cylinder? ||
 * 6. How do you read a triple beam or electronic balance? ||
 * 7. How do you read a spring scale? ||
 * 8. How do you read a thermometer? ||
 * 9. How do you read a ruler? ||
 * 10. How do you read a meter stick? ||
 * 11. How do you read an ammeter, voltmeter, and/or multimeter? ||
 * 12. How do you read a stopwatch? ||
 * 13. What determines the decimal value of your instrument readings? ||
 * 14. What are the basic SI units of measurement? ||
 * 15. What are the prefixes, and their associated values, used with SI units of measurement? ||
 * 16. How is the precision of a measuring tool determined? ||
 * 17. What is precision? ||
 * 18. What is accuracy?* ||

1. What are the steps in designing a scientific investigation?
 * Standard 1.4**
 * 2. What is an independent variable? ||
 * 3. What is a dependent variable? ||
 * 4. What is a controlled variable? ||
 * 5. What are scientific investigations designed to do? ||
 * 6. What statement predicts the relationship between the independent and dependent variable? ||
 * 7. What does the independent variable represent? ||
 * 8. What does the dependent variable represent? ||
 * 9. What is the purpose of conducting repeated trials of an investigation (experiment)? ||
 * 10. What is a //control group// and when should a control group be used? ||
 * 11. How do you evaluate the design of an investigation (experiment)? ||
 * 12. What are the steps used to evaluate the methods used in an investigation (experiment)? ||


 * Standard 1.5**

1. How do you organize data collected for a controlled scientific investigation?
 * 2. How do you use graphs to organize data from a controlled scientific investigation? ||
 * 3. Which axis represents the independent variable on a graph? ||
 * 4. Which axis represents the dependent variable on a graph? ||
 * 5. How do you determine the scales for both the horizontal and vertical axis? ||
 * 6. What are the parts of a completed graph? ||
 * 7. What is a line graph and what is it used for? ||
 * 8. What is a bar graph and what is it used for? ||
 * 9. What is a circle graph and what is it used for? ||
 * 10. What is a direct variation (or directly proportional)? ||
 * 11. What is an inverse variation (or inversely proportional)? ||


 * Standard 1.6**

1. What is dimensional analysis?
 * 2. What is a “conversion factor”? ||
 * 3. What is a scientific model? ||
 * 4. What is technology?* ||
 * 5. What does the hypothesis in a controlled scientific investigation predict? ||
 * 6. How are the results of a controlled scientific investigation related to the original hypothesis? ||
 * 7. If the results of a controlled scientific investigation support a hypothesis, is the hypothesis assumed to be a statement of fact? ||
 * 8. What is a scientific theory? ||
 * 9. What is a scientific law? ||


 * Standard 1.7 and 1.8**

1. What are technological designs or products?
 * 2. What field of study focuses on technological designs or products? ||
 * 3. What are the four stages of technological design? ||
 * 4. What are the common requirements within the “solution design” stage of technological design? ||
 * 5. What is the relationship between benefits and risk in technological design? ||
 * 6. What is a “tradeoff” in technological design?* ||
 * 7. What is science? ||
 * 8. What is technology? ||
 * 9. What is the purpose of a scientific investigation? ||
 * 10. What is the purpose of the technological design process? ||
 * 11. What do engineers do? ||
 * 12. How would you compare the process of scientific investigation with the process of technological design?** ||