Variables
Anything that changes in an experiment.
What is a VARIABLE?
This belongs on the top of every graph you make.
What is a TITLE?
This step answers the original question.
What is a conclusion?
Identify Dependent Variable
Light Brightness
Wattage of Bulb
What is the light brightness?
True or False: The hypothesis is not an educated claim
The variable that you make different in order to test it.
What is a INDEPENDENT VARIABLE?
The variable that you place on the x-axis.
What is the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE?
An educated guess or prediction for what might happen in an experiment.
What is a HYPOTHESIS?
Identify independent variable.
Miles ran
Heart Rate
Miles Ran
Third step - after the research
The variable that you observe or measure during an experiment.
What is a DEPENDENT VARIABLE?
The three types of graphs used most commonly in science.
What is the pie chart, line graph, and bar graph?
The step of the scientific method where you make graphs, look for patterns, and think about what happened.
What is the ANALYSIS?
Identify dependent variable.
Amount of sugar
Taste of Kool-Aid
Taste of Kool-Aid
The format of an appropriate hypothesis.
What is "If this, then that"?
Something that stays the same to keep an experiment fair.
What is a CONSTANT?
The variable that is placed on the Y-axis.
What is DEPENDENT VARIABLE?
Numbers, observations, or information you collect in an experiment.
What is DATA?
Identify independent variable.
Student test scores
Studying while listening to music
Student test scores
This variable always comes first when writing the hypothesis - after the "If"
What is the independent variable?
The number of variables that you can change in an experiment.
What is one?
The definition of DRY MIX.
D - Dependent R- Responding Y- Y axis
M - Manipulated variable I - Independent X - X axis
A list of things you do to perform the experiment(not Scientific Method)
What are PROCEDURES?
Identify independent variable.
Car mpg
Type of car
Type of car
True or False: if the hypothesis is rejected, then the experimenter was wrong.
False