Defining basic science words using Wikipedia has proven to be a bit more difficult that I imagined. Most of the students did well, but some just copied the Wikipedia writing without any mind crunching so that it would appear in the own words.
The words are: concept, process, evidence, research, science, observe, quantitative observation, qualitative observation, inference, predict, classify, model, scale model.
Wiki Answer has proven a useful alternative. The drawback is that you have to know what questions to ask. Yahoo.com seems to be better than Google when requesting definitions due to its direct linkage to Heritage Dictionary.
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Gotta get this info out faster!
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