SCIENTIFIC METHOD rocks!
Let's talk variables
Prefixes/Root Word Party (not on quiz)
Mixed Bag
Vocabulary Fun!
How well do you know Mrs. Harris/Honey?
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The scientific method is a ____________ scientists follow to answer specific questions about the natural world.
"a series of steps"
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In the MYTHBUSTERS we watched about elephants being afraid of mice, the dependent variable was ___________________.
The elephants reaction to the trials. (what was being measured)
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"Bio" means ___________.
Life
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In the Heart Rate lab, the type of exercise you performed was the ...
Independent Variable
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What is the name of a variable that is kept the same in a scientific experiment?
Constant/Control
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What is Honey's favorite word?
TREATS!
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When writing your scientific question, it's important to consider if your question is _________________.
Testable
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Your lab group wants to conduct an experiment to find out how peoples' heart rate changes as the length of time their exercise increases. The independent variable will be ________________.
How long the people in your experiment exercise.
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"Derm" means
skin
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Why was it very important to time how long people exercised before taking their heart rate?
So you didn't skew the results, so you had a controlled experiment.
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What is the name of the variable that changes between the trials?
Independent Variable
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What subject did Mrs. Harris teach before coming to Kent?
Math at Miller Creek
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What is a hypothesis?
An educated guess about the answer to your question.
The scientist's prediction about what will happen in the experiment.
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A scientist plants two rows of corn for an experiment. She puts fertilizer on Row 1, but does not on Row 2. Both rows receive the same amount of water and light intensity. What are the controls in this experiment?
Amount of water, light, same type of corn. 
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"pachy" means
thick
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What part of the lab makes a great title for the graph?
The question
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What is the name of the variable being measured?
Dependent Variable
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Where did Mrs. Harris go to college?
UCLA - GO Bruins!
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You conduct an experiment to see if, after petting dogs, people's heart rate goes down. What type of data will you be collecting?
Quantitative Data - it would have a number in it. For example, beats per minute.
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Identify the dependent variable from this hypothesis. "If students put a lot of effort into science class this year, their grade will be higher."
Student grades
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"cyto" means
cell
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What would the INDEPENDENT variable be in an experiment testing which paper airplane design goes furthest?
the paper airplane design
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What do you call data that has numbers in in?
Quantitative data
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How old is Honey?
9
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Scientists are testing a new hair product to see if it makes hair shinier and softer. In this experiment, they will be collecting _______________ data.
Qualitative - the data collected wouldn't be numerical.
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The rate at which yeast grows may be affected by how much oxygen it gets. You design an experiment to test this hypothesis. What would your independent variable be?
How much oxygen each yeast sample gets.
Independent "I" Change! The scientist would be giving the yeast samples different levels of Oxygen to see how it changes their growth.
500
"troph" means
eat
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Miss Honey sets up an experiment to see how the mass of a ball affects the distance it rolls off a ramp. What is the dependent variable?
The distance it rolls off the ramp.
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What do you call data that describes the qualities of observations (no numbers)?
Qualitative Data
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The names of Mrs. Harris' two cats are
Muffin and Cookie
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True or False, the scientific method is linear, meaning each step leads to the next without exception.
False. The scientific method is fluid. For example, sometimes your analysis might lead you to a totally different question.
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What is the independent variable for the following hypothesis: "If students eat breakfast then they will perform better on a math exam than students who do not eat breakfast."
Whether or not the students eat breakfast.
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"carcin" means
cancer
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What variable should go on the X axis (horizontal) of a graph?
Independent
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What 49ers runningback is on the injured reserve for 4 more games!
Christian McCaffrey
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What is the only thing at Kent that Honey has ever barked at?
Falcon Fierce - which makes sense - she should alert us when a life-bird comes into our class.