Scientific Method

What is the last step in the scientific method?

• Conclusion

• Observation

• Communication of results

• Hypothesis formation

What is the difference between a question and a hypothesis?

• A question is what you end up with after the test and the hypothesis is a summary of the conclusions.

• A question follows from an interesting observation and the hypothesis is an educated guess or answer to that questiony

• A question is the summary of data collected and the hypothesis is the interpretation of the data

What two parts are needed to make a testable question?

(a)  

What is a hypothesis?

• Whatever the teacher tells you is the truth

• An untestable statement

• An experiment

• Your best “educated guess” of what the answer to your question will be

How do you make a conclusion?

• You compare the data from your experimental results to the hypothesis you made.

• You guess what the results should be.

• You keep making different tests until they show what you want to see.

• You look at your hypotheses and choose which one you like best.

Laying in bed you notice that you get cold every time your brother opens the door. This is most closely associated with which step in the scientific method?

• Developing an experiment

• Conclusion

• Making an observation

• Forming a hypothesis

Anything that can change in an experiment is called a ___________

• measurement

• observation

• variable

• constant

The scientific method is ...

• ways scientist make problems and ask questions

• ways scientists never solve problems

• ways scientists answer questions and solve problems

A possible answer to a question or problem. Also called an educated guess.

• Experiment

• Observation

• Hypothesis

• Collect data

A student using the scientific method would proceed through the steps in which of the following orders?

• hypothesis, observation, analysis, conclusion

• observation, experimentation, hypothesis, conclusion

• observation, hypothesis, experimentation, conclusion