Understanding Simulations
A Grade 3 science worksheet to introduce students to the concept of simulations and their uses.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. A simulation is a way to act out or model a real-life event or process. It helps us understand how things work without actually doing the real thing.
1. A simulation is always exactly the same as the real thing.
True
False
2. Simulations can help us learn about dangerous things safely.
True
False
3. Which of these is an example of a simulation?
Playing catch with a friend
Building a model airplane
Riding a bike outside
Eating an apple
4. Why do scientists use simulations?
To make things more difficult
To learn about things safely
To play games all day
To confuse other scientists
5. A simulation helps us understand how things .
6. Pilots use flight to practice flying planes.
7. Describe one example of a simulation you have seen or heard about. What did it help people learn?
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