Scientific Method Vocabulary

Made through your senses

• Research

• Hypothesis

• Observation

Why is my hypothesis right or wrong?

• Conclusion

• Data

• research

An educated guess of the answer to my question; possible answer to a scientific question

• Conclusion

• Scientific method

• Hypothesis

Based on observations

• Inference

• Results

• Conclusion

Series of steps to solve a problem

• Conclusion

• Experiment

• Scientific method

Facts and figures gathered from an experiment; can be qualitative or quantitave

• Experiment

• data

• observation

Scientific procedure used to test a hypothesis

• Observation

• Results

• Experiment

What happened in your experiment?

• Data

• Results

• Research