Scientific Method

The third step of the scientific method that involves determining your variables and making an educated guess or prediction about what will happen.

• experiment

• conclusion

• gather information

• question

• hypothesis

The fourth step of the scientific method that involves determining your materials and steps needed to help you answer the question and making observations and recording what you see happening in a table, chart, or graph.

• question

• hypothesis

• data

• experiment

• gather information

The first step of the scientific method that involves thinking about what you want to know.

• experiment

• question

• hypothesis

• data

• gather information

The sixth step of the scientific method that involves reviewing your hypothesis and what you learned from your data and using these to explain what happened.

• conclusion

• question

• hypothesis

• gather information

• data

The second step of the scientific method that involves gathering information to learn about your question or topic.

• data

• research

• experiment

• conclusion

• hypothesis

The fifth step of the scientific method that involves examining the results from your experiment and looking for patterns.

• gather information

• analyzing data

• hypothesis

• conclusion

• experiment

The items that you keep the same to ensure that your experiment is valid.

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• controls

The variable that you are measuring in the experiment (result or effect).

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• controlled variable

The variable that you are testing in your experiment (the one that changes).

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• controlled variable

Which step of the scientific method is this example-

Does the volume of water change when it freezes?

• question

• hypothesis

• experiment

• data

• conclusion