A scientific method

Why would you apply the scientific method?

• History, arts, religion are examples of area of study that is scientific.

• It is use to analyze and observe only cells.

• It is a way to ask and answer scientific questions.

Reorder the following six classical steps of the scientific method:

• Analyze the data and draw a conclusion.

• Conduct an experiment.

• Form a hypothesis.

• Ask a question.

• Make observations.

In the first step, I need to ask a question or...

• find reasons and draw conclusions.

• identify the problem you would like to solve.

In the second step, you make observations and ​ (a)   research about your topic. ​ (b)   means to study ​ (c)   .

• Observation
• carefully
• do

Once you have observed and researched your problem, you form a hypothesis. A ​ (a)   is an educated guess about ​ (b)   something works. In order to be useful, a hypothesis need to be​ (c)   .

• hypothesis
• how
• testable

In the fourth step, you must _____ an experiment and ____ your hypothesis. You must be sure to only test one thing at once. You can do this by change one thing or variable in each experiment.

Once you completed your experiment, you will look at the...

• results of your experiment.

• try to figure out what the results mean.

• results and try to know what the results mean.

Finally, using your data, you can draw a conclusion. If your conclusion didn't support your hypothesis so...

• Your experiment was not testable.

• That's okay! It doesn't mean your experiment was bad.

• you need to do another experiment.