Scientific Method Vocabulary

A statement that tells what you think will happen in advance

• Prediction

• Variable

• Hypothesis

• Controlled Experiment

A factor that can be changed and that might affect the outcome of an experiment

• Prediction

• Variable

• Hypothesis

• Controlled Experiment

A prediction that can be tested by an experiment

• Prediction

• Variable

• Hypothesis

• Controlled Experiment

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

An experiment in which only one variable is uncontrolled and all of the other variables are controlled or kept the same.

• Prediction

• Variable

• Hypothesis

• Controlled Experiment

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

A way to ask an answer scientific questions by making observations and doing experiments.

• hypothesis

• control group

• scientific method

• variable

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

The part of an experiment that you, the scientist, changes or controls before the experiment

• Control

• Independent variable

• Dependent variable

The part of the experiment that's changed through the experiment and is measured or observed by you, the scientist

• control

• Dependent variable

• Independent variable

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

The part of the experiment that stays the same.

• Dependent variable

• Independent variable

• Control variable

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

The first step of the scientific method.

• Write a hypothesis

• Research

• Ask a question

• Experiment

When you design and perform a scientific procedure in order to answer your research question.

• Experiment

• Results

• Conclusion