Scientific Method
The first step in the scientific method.
The first rule when writing procedures
What is be specific and to the point?
What is the independent variable?
Used to help understand and explain results.
what is data?
Used to display data that fits into categories.
What is a bar graph?
An educated guess or prediction.
What is a hypothesis?
The second rule when writing a procedure.
What is must be a numbered list?
The variable that is being observed.
What is the dependent variable?
Helps easily interpret and analyze what has been observed.
What is organizing data?
Used to display data that fits into a range.
What is a histogram?
The final step in the scientific method that is not always necessary.
What is repeating the experiment?
The third rule when writing a procedure.
What is must be in complete sentences?
The normal part of the experiment.
What is the control group?
Organizing data into rows and columns.
What is a data table?
Uses pictures or symbols to represent an amount of data.
What is a pictograph?
The step that comes after making a hypothesis.
What is conducting the experiment?
The forth rule when writing a procedure.
Things that are kept the same.
Used to display the number of times pieces of data occur in a set.
What is a frequency table?
Used to show data that is in some way connected.
What is a line graph?
This step is where you determine if there were any issues or if you need to repeat the experiment.
What is drawing conclusions?
The fifth rule to writing a procedure
What is begin after collecting materials?
Group that is being tested or changed.
What is the experimental group?
Used to track the number of times something occurs on a frequency table.
What are tally marks?
Used to show relationships between two sets of data.
What is a scatter plot?