Scientific Method
What is the first step in the scientific method?
Observations
What step of the scientific method do you make a prediction or educated guess?
Hypothesis
What are the two types of variables
Independent and Dependent
Which step of the scientific method is missing: Observations, Question, Hypothesis, Experiment, _____, Conclusion
Data
What step of the scientific method do you test your hypothesis?
Experiment
Putting my plant in the closet will decrease it's chance of living. What is wrong with this hypothesis?
it is missing "If" and "Then"
What is the variable that you change in an experiment?
Independent Variable
What is the phrase we use to remember the scientific method?
Only Quiet Horses Eat Delicious Carrots
What is the 5th step of the scientific method?
Data
If you drink more milk will you get stronger bones? State a good hypothesis for this question.
If you increase the amount of milk you drink, then you will have stronger bones.
What is the thing that is affected by a change/that you measure in an experiment?
Dependent Variable
True or False? The scientific method has 6 steps.
True
List all six steps of the scientific method.
Observation, Question, Hypothesis, Experiment, Data, Conclusion
Is this a good hypothesis? If Ms. G does not water her plants, then they will die.
Yes!
What do we call the things we keep the same throughout the entire experiment?
Constants
List the independent and dependent variables in the following hypothesis. If I water a plant more, then the plant will grow more.
Independent- water
Dependent- plant growth
What is the 2nd step of the scientific method?
Question
I wonder if you smoke more cigarettes, will you have a better chance of getting lung cancer? State a good hypothesis for this question.
If you increase the number of cigarettes you smoke, then you will increase your chance of getting lung cancer
Find the independent and dependent variables: If you increase the time practice playing basketball, then you will increase your chances of making a basket every time.
Independent- time practicing basketball
Dependent- making baskets.
Find what's wrong with the hypothesis: I think that if I say 6,7 , Ms. Greenfield and Mr. Pope will go insane.
Should not start with I think