Scientific Method

What is the first thing you do when performing the scientific method?

• Make a conclusion
• make an observation
• solve a problem
• experiment

An educated guess is

• an observation
• question
• hypothesis
• experiment

The summary at the end of an experiment that explains the results. 

• conclusion
• procedures
• materials
• responding variable

What is an observation?

• A scientific statement based on ideas

• Using your senses to notice what is going on around you

• To be unaware of your surroundings

• The question that you want an answer to.

A series of steps used by scientists to solve a problem or answer a question. 

• scientific method
• recipe
• data collection
• metric system

Which is NOT a step in the scientific method?

• Make observation
• Form a theory
• Collect data
• Form a hypothesis

This variable in an experiment is the one being changed by the scientist. 

• dependent variable
• independent variable
• data
• control group

If you increase the amount of spinach you eat, then you will increase the iron in your blood. 
What's the dependent variable?

• increase the amount of iron in your blood
• spinach you eat

Dependent variable means

• the scientist controls what to test
• educated guess
• ask a question
• what is being measured

What are the steps to the Scientific Method?

• Form a hypothesis, make an observation, ask a question, experiment, analyze data, draw conclusions

• Make an observation, ask a questions, form a hypothesis, experiment, analyze data, draw conclusions.

• Form a hypothesis, ask a question, make an observation, experiment, analyze data, draw conclusions

• Make an observation, ask a question, experiment, analyze data, form a hypothesis, draw conclusions