Qualitative Vs. Quantitative

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Qualitative Vs. Quantitative

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Students examine the difference between qualitative and quantitative observations by doing a simple lab activity. This lesson involves the basic observation process skill, and can be used at any grade level.

Education Levels:

9, 10, 11, 12

Subject:

General Science

Resource Type:

Lesson plan

Medium:

Text/HTML

Fee Status:

Free

Online provider:

Beacon Learning Center

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Keywords:

Quantitative observations, Scientific observation, Qualitative observations, Scientific research

Mediator:

Secondary school teachers

Publisher:

Beacon Learning Center

Contributor:

Summer Zephyr

Is Part Of:

http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/lessons/Level4SC.asp

Language:

English

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

Science

Learning Outcomes:

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Science (1996)

Strand H: The Nature of Science

Standard 1: The student uses the scientific processes and habits of mind to solve problems. (SC.H.1.4)

3. understands that no matter how well one theory fits observations, a new theory might fit them as well or better, or might fit a wider range of observations, because in science, the testing, revising, and occasional discarding of theories, new and old, never ends and leads to an increasingly better understanding of how things work in the world, but not to absolute truth

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