Scientific Method

The information you collect while doing your experiment is called

• conclusions

• data

• hypotheses

• procedures

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What is an independent variable?

• What a scientist changes in an experiment to test their hypothesis

• What scientist measure to see if it responded to a change

• What happens when you do an experiment

• What you keep the same throughout all experimental groups

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NGSS.MS-PS3-4

What is an dependent variable?

• What a scientist changes in an experiment to test their hypothesis

• What scientist measure to see if it responded to a change

• What happens when you do an experiment

• What you keep the same throughout all experimental groups

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

At what temperature did bread mold the slowest?

• 20

• 40

• 60

• 80

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

A testable explanation to a problem that has not yet been tested. 

• data
• theory
• hypothesis
• fact

What step does every scientific experiment begin with?

• hypothesis
• question/problem
• procedures
• conclusion

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.

Something that you keep the same in an experiment is called a(n) _________________________.

• variable

• control

• procedure

• conclusion

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

What is the DEPENDENT variable (effect) in this experiment?

"Does eating breakfast improve test scores?"

• eating breakfast or not

• the grade you got on the test

• what time you get up in the morning

• how tasty the breakfast is