Scientific Method Review

What is the scientific method?

• Steps someone takes to answer a hypothesis, develop a procedure, design and carry out steps or question to test the share and document designs and questions to share with someone else

• Steps someone takes to answer a question, develop a hypothesis, design and carry out steps or procedures to test the hypothesis, and document observations and findings to share with someone else

• Steps someone takes to answer a procedure, develop a question, design and carry out steps or hypothesis to test the procedure, and document steps and designs to share with someone else

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1. 1. Ask a Question

• Observations based on curiosities, but only 1 question can be answered at a time

• Curiosities based on observations, and as many questions as you want can be answered at 1 time

• Curiosities based on observations, but only 1 question at a time can be answered.

• Observations bases on curiosities, and as many questions as you want can be answered at 1 time.

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Which of these is an observation?

• Calculating how much produce a farm could make in a year

• Describing the color of something

• Answering a question

• Measurement

Series of steps followed by scientists to answer questions.

• hypothesis

• experiment

• scientific method

• conclusion

When doing research, one is gathering _____________ ______________ on the question they are answering.

• empirical evidence

• background information

• educated guess

• data

Why is it important to write down observations?

• So it is readable and makes sense to others.

• So it looks fancy

• For future re-trials, to compare observations

• No reason

Independent Variable

• The manipulated variable, changed as a result of changes from the independent variable

• The responding variable, changed by the experimenter

• The manipulated variable, changed by the experimenter

• The responding variable, changed as a result of changes from the independent variable

Dependent Variable

• The manipulated variable, changed by the experimenter

• The responding variable, changed by the experimenter

• The manipulated variable, affected by changes of the independent variable

• The responding variable, affected by changes of the independent variable

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Control Group

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Constant

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