Scientific Method Practice

What is the first step of the Scientific Method?

• Research your question

• Ask a question

• Make a hypothesis

• Plan and perform your experiment

What is a hypothesis

• A question

• An answer

• An educated guess or prediction

• An educated response

You have just researched your question, what is the next step?

• Make a hypothesis

• Plan & perform your experiment

• Analyze Data

• Come to a conclusion & report your findings

You have made your educated guess, a hypothesis, now what do you do?

• Collect data

• Plan & perform your experiment

• Ask a question

• Analyze data

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List the steps of the scientific method

d

e

f

c

b

a

Draw conclusions

Form a hypothesis

Communicate results

Analyze results

Conduct experiment

Ask a question

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Let's dive into the world of science! What exactly is a hypothesis?

• A wild guess, like guessing the number of jellybeans in a jar!

• An observation, like noticing it rains more in April.

• A proven fact, like the earth orbits the sun.

• An educated guess based on observations, like predicting it will rain because you see dark clouds.

While doing your experiment, you should be ....

• Analyzing data

• Making a hypothesis

• Collecting data

• Researching your question

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Once you are done with your experiment and have collected all of your data, you are ready to...

• Research your question

• Make a hypothesis

• Come to a conclusion & report your findings

• Analyze your data

Once you have analyzed your data, you are now ready to...

• Plan and perform another experiment

• Collect data

• Come to a conclusion & report your findings

• Ask your question

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristics of a hypothesis?

• Must be made with background knowledge

• Must be testable

• Must make a prediction

• Must always be correct

• Must include the IV and DV