Variables
Anything that changes in an experiment.
What is a VARIABLE?
I want to know if water freezes faster on its own or with sugar aded. What should my hypothesis say?
Will water freeze faster or slower with the addition of sugar?
This is the last step and it answers the original question.
What is a conclusion?
Number of letters in the alphabet?
What is 26?
What has a mouth, but cannot eat. Moves, but has no legs. Has a bank, but no money?
A River?
The variable that you make different in order to test it.
What is a Independent Variable?
Susan said, "If I fertilize my geranium plants, they will blossom." Which Step of the scientific method is she using?
Forming a Hypothesis.
An educated guess or prediction for what might happen in an experiment.
What is a HYPOTHESIS?
What rapper said "kiki, do you love me? are you riding" ?
What is Drake?
A man walked all day long but only moved 2 feet. How is this possible?
Because he walks with his 2 feet
The variable that you observe or measure during an experiment.
What is a Dependent Variable?
If students study 15 minutes a night, Then they will have higher test grades than those who don't study.
What is the independent variable?
Students studying 15 minutes a night.
The step of the scientific method where you make graphs, look for patterns, and think about what happened.
What is the Observations?
The 16th president of the united states
What is Abraham Lincoln?
You are running in a street marathon and you overtake the person in 2nd place. What place are you now?
Second place
Something that stays the same to keep an experiment fair.
What is a CONSTANT?
If people who have headaches take aspirin, Then they will get relief faster than those who don't.
What is the dependent variable?
The relief time
Numbers, observations, or information you collect in an experiment.
What is DATA?
The starting Quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons.
What is Matt Ryan?
What two colors make brown?
Red and Green
The number of variables that you can change in an experimemt.
What is one?
If a brand name light Bub is left on, Then it will burn longer than a bargain brand light bulb.
What is the independent variable and the dependent variable?
The independent variable is the brand name light bulb and the dependent is the amount of time the light bulbs work.
A list of things you do to perform the experiment(not Scientific Method)
What are PROCEDURES?
The largest city in Florida.
What is Jacksonville?
What are four things that have an "eye" but cannot see?
A needle, a potato, the alphabet and a hurricane