Steps (of course), the STEPS
This is a logical and organized process used by scientists to solve problems and answer questions.
An educated guess than can be tested
What is a hypothesis?
An explanation of how species change over generations through the process of natural selection.
What is a theory (the Theory of Evolution)?
This is the independent variable of this experiment.
What is the amount of sleep?
An act of noticing and describing events in a careful and orderly way.
What is an observation?
This is the final step of the scientific method.
What is "communicate your results in a final report?"
This is the variable that is changed by the scientist in a controlled experiment.
What is the independent variable?
What is a law (specifically, Newton's second law of motion.)
This is the dependent variable of this experiment.
What is the test score?
Any characteristic, factor, or quantity that can be changed, measured, or counted in an experiment.
What is a variable?
Before forming a hypothesis to test your question, it would be wise to do this first.
What is do background research?
This is the variable that is observed in a controlled experiment.
What is a dependent variable?
A claim that the universe started 13.8 billion years ago when a "small singularity" suddenly expanded.
What is a theory (The Big Bang Theory)?
If you plotted these results on a graph, the test scores would go on this axis.
What is the y-axis?
This variable is usually plotted on the x-axis of a graph.
What is the independent variable?
If you're going to draw a conclusion from your experiment, you'd need to spend some time analyzing this - what your experiment produced.
What is data?
This group in a controlled experiment experiences the change to the independent variable. It is the "test" of the experiment.
What is the experimental group?
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is a law (specifically, Newton's third law of motion)?
If you plotted these results on a graph, the amount of sleep would go on this axis.
What is the x-axis?
A scientist who studies bird mating rituals takes notes describing a male bird's dancing pattern. These notes are an example of this kind of data.
What is qualitative data?
This third step of the scientific method might be called "offering sophisticated musings" or "issuing knowing suppositions."
What is form a hypothesis?
This group in a controlled experiment receives all of the same treatment except the change to the independent variable.
What is the control group?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred from one form to another.
What is a law (specifically, the Law of Conservation of Energy)?
What is a control?
What is matter?