Scientific Method

Why is it important to collect data?

• because
• it gives you busy work
• They are magically delicious
• in order to share your results with others

What do you do after you come up with your hypothesis?

• Conclude
• Test your hypothesis
• Do a victory dance
• Tell your teacher

An educated guess is

• an observation
• question
• hypothesis
• experiment

This step should be done more than once to ensure accurate results. 

• Conduct an experiment
• conclude
• record data
• clean up after an investigation

What does every scientific experiment begin with?

• a hypothesis
• a conclusion
• procedures
• a question or problem

What is an observation?

• Something you measure or detect with your senses.

• The way you feel about something

• An educated guess

• A theory that has been disproved

A scientific observation is:

• Based on facts

• based on your personal beliefs

• Based on opinions

• Based on a rumor you heard in the bathroom

What is the scientific method?

• A systematic procedure for how to conduct a scientific experiment

• The process of solving a problem

• A way of making non-scientific observations

• A way to summarize findings from multiple investigations

What is the best way to collect and record data?

• In a data table

• On post-it notes

• On scrap paper

• interpretive dance

After the data is analyzed the hypothesis is stated as correct or incorrect in the __________

• conclusion

• experiment

• hypothesis

• table of contents