Parts of Scientific Method
Variables
Data
C.E.R. Conclusion
Goldilocks Experiment
100
An educated guess
What is a hypothesis?
100
Variables that you keep constant.
What are control variables?
100
The place to look for data from an experiment.
What is a data table?
100
Another name for your hypothesis.
What is a claim?
100
Type of graph used to show change over time.
What is a line graph?
200
Something you use to organize your data DURING an experiment.
What is a data table?
200
The variable that you measure or observe.
What is a dependent variable?
200
The step of the scientific method in which you determine whether or not your data supports your hypothesis.
What is analyzing?
200
Information that you use to support or disprove your hypothesis.
What is evidence (data)?
200
The dependent variable in the Goldilocks experiment.
What is temperature?
300
This is what you write at the end of an experiment.
What is a conclusion?
300
The variable that you purposefully change. It affects the dependent variable.
What is an independent variable?
300
Making up data during an experiment.
What is something you should never ever ever do.
300
The step of the scientific method in which you use the C.E.R. model.
What is the conclusion?
300
The independent variable in the Goldilocks experiment.
What is the mass or amount of substance?
400
Something that needs to be done BEFORE a hypothesis is developed.
What is research?
400
Temperature of the water in three different size containers.
What is the dependent variable in the Goldilocks experiment?
400
The quantitative information that you collect during an experiment.
What is data?
400
Your defense as to why your data did or did not support your hypothesis.
What is reasoning?
400
"The small bowl will cool off faster than the larger bowls."
What is a hypothesis for the Goldilocks experiment?
500
A visual used to bridge the gap between a data set and a written conclusion.
What is a graph?
500
The amount of water in each of the containers.
What is the independent variables in the Goldilocks experiment.
500
The qualitative information you collect during an experiment. (Using your five senses)
What are observations?
500
The model we use to write our conclusions that includes a claim, evidence, and reasoning.
What is C.E.R.?
500
The "big idea" learned in the research step of the Goldilocks experiment.
What is heat transfer?
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