Science grade 7

Why is the Scientific Method an important process in doing experiments?

• It ensures that the people doing the experiments are scientific.

• It ensures that the results can be trusted and repeated.

• It takes more work but it's worth it.

• It helps the experiment to take longer and be better.

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Doing experiments is important because it ...

• creates more questions to be answered.

• helps create jobs for scientists.

• allows for new discoveries and knowledge in the area of science.

• ensures that many tools are used safely and accurately.

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To gather information, we can...

• read books

• ask questions

• use our senses to study things

• do all of these

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The first step in the scientific method is...

• Making observations

• Conducting experiments

• Analyzing data

• Defining the problem/asking the question

In science, it is very important that your Hypothesis is correct or proven correct in the experiment.

• True

• False

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Our recorded observations are called...

• data

• control factors

• hypotheses

• experiments

What should be listed in your Next Steps in your experiment?

• What should be done to clean up and return materials to the correct spot in the lab.

• A list of who you are going to share your results with.

• How you are going to display your results in a graph.

• Possible improvements or changes to be made to the experiment.

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At the end of the scientific method, we must state a...

• purpose

• question

• hypothesis

• conclusion

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The first step of the scientific process is testing the hypothesis.

• True

• False

Sometimes, steps of the scientific process must be repeated.

• True

• False

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