PRESCHOOL SCIENCE · CHAPTER 1

Observation & scientific inquiry

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  1. Observing

    Describe observations with the senses

    Connect an observation to the sense used to make it.

  2. Observing

    Tell an observation from a guess

    Describe what is directly noticed, and separate it from a guess about why it happened.

AN EXAMPLE FROM THIS CHAPTER

You notice that a bell rings loudly. Which sense gives that information?

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hearing

Loudness is information detected by hearing.

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