Variables
Anything that changes in an experiment.
What is a VARIABLE?
This step is where you accept or reject your hypothesis.
What is a conclusion?
"There were red tables in the classroom" is an example of this kind of observation.
What is QUALITATIVE?
The variable I (the scientist) changes.
What is an INDEPENDENT VARIABLE?
A logical and rational explanation for what might happen in an experiment.
What is a HYPOTHESIS?
What is a HYPOTHESIS?
The variable where the results are measured.
What is a DEPENDENT VARIABLE?
True or False: The Y-axis is the independent variable.
What is False?
The step of the scientific method where you make graphs, look for patterns, and think about what happened.
What is the RESULTS?
Step 2: Line up
Step 3: Race individually 3 times
Step 4: Calculate the average
Step 5: Analyze the results
What is the PROCEDURES?
Something that stays the same to keep an experiment fair.
What is a CONTROL?
This is the variable that goes on the right side of the data table.
What is the DEPENDENT VARIABLE?
This observation involves numbers and measurements.
What is QUANTITATIVE?
A data table is comparing the average temperature over 10 years. This graph would be used.
What is a LINE GRAPH?
The number of variables that you can change in an experimemt.
What is one?
If you have a data table with two columns, the left column always goes on this axis of the graph.
What is the X-AXIS (Bottom of graph).
These are used to make obervations.
What is are the 5 senses?