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| What Skills Do Scientists Use? | inferring, observing, predicting, classifying, evaluating, making models |
| observing | using one or more of your senses to gather information and using tools to help your senses |
| inferring | when you explain or interpret the things you observe; based on reasoning |
| predicting | making a statement or a claim about what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence |
| classifying | grouping together of items that are alike in some way |
| evaluting | comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion about them |
| making models | creating a representation of comoplex objects or processes |
| quantitative observation | observations based on numbers |
| qualitative observation | descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers |
| science | a way of learning about the natural world |
