Collecting Information
Scientific Process
Experimental Design
Scenarios
100
Scientific name for information collected by our senses
Data
100
What is the first step of any scientific endevour?
Making Observations
100
The group not recieving a treatment in a controlled experiment.
Control Group
100
Dependent variable in an experiment to evaluate the effectiveness different soaps to clean clothes.
How clean the clothes are
200
Collected information that involves numbers
Quantitative Data
200
What guides a scientific inquiry?
A scientific question
200
The variable that is manipulated (changed) by the experimenter to test what happens.
Independent variable
200
Independent variable to test whether students study better inside or outside
The student's location
300
Collected information that only relies on your senses
Qualitative Data
300
What do we call the predicted outcome of a scientific investigation?
Hypothesis
300
The factor that is measured by a scientist during an experiment.
Dependent variable
300
Name an experimental control you would implement in a test of how clean different detergents make clothes.
Same clothes, washing machine, amount of detergent, level of dirtiness etc.
400
Interpretation of information based on previous experience.
Inference
400
If a hypothesis is confirmed by an experiment, what is the next step in the scientific method?
Test again
400
Factors held the same for each trial of an experiment.
Control (or Constant) variables.
400
Create a scenario to compare the stretchiness of different bubble gums. Name IV, DV and a control.
Answers vary.
500
Make 1 qualitative, 1 quantitive observation and 1 inference about this image.
Answers may vary
500
If a hypothesis is not supported by an experiment what is the next step in the Scientific Method?
Revise hypothesis/test again
500
Hypothesis for a study to evaluate children's screen time on their happiness.
Answers will vary
500
Describe an experiment that could have been done to generate this data; include independent, dependent and a control
Two fruiting trees grown one with fertilizer and one without I-fertilizer D-fruit amount C- same tree type etc.