Steps of the Scientific Method
What is the 1st step of the Scientific Method?
Ask a Question
What is the meaning of a Constant in an experiment?
What stays the same throughout the experiment
Sally saw three leaves stem from the plants during the first week of her experiment
Quantitative
What is changed yourself
Independent Variable
What is the Last step of the Scientific Method?
Draw a Conclusion
What is an Independent Variable (IV)?
What I control in the experiment
Johnny picked out green potting plants to start his experiment
Qualitative
what is the outcome of the experiment ?
Dependent Variable
What is the 4th step of the Scientific Method ?
Analyze the Results
What is a Dependent Variable?
The outcome/ what gets measured.
Kasey's results from her experiment showed that her plant grew 2.3cm every two days.
Quantitative
The scientist changed the type of temperature each of the plants got each day, what type of variable is this?
Independent Variable
What is the 2nd Step of the Scientific Method?
Form a Hypothesis
What is a Hypothesis?
A question that can be experimented on/ or can be measured
JJ decides to use red, yellow, and blue light to see what color the flower grows best
Qualitative
Variable that gets measured after experiment is altered
Dependent Variable
What is the 3rd step of the Scientific Method?
Set up an experiment
Process of observing, asking questions, and collecting information to find an answer to the hypothesis
What does Quantitative mean?
able to measure or count the data using numbers
Can there be a dependent Variable without an Independent Variable in an experiment?
No