Scientific Method Steps
The third step in the Scientific Method
What is Testing the Hypothesis: Doing an experiment to test our educated guess?
What is a Qualitative Observation?
The Variable that we are measuring.
What is Dependent Variable?
An Educated guess or answer to problem or question.
What is a Hypothesis?
This is what we put our collected data into.
What is a table or graph?
The 5th and 6th step in the Scientific Method
What is Drawing a Conclusion and Communicating Results?
This observation uses numbers and measurements.
What is a Quantitative Observation?
The Variables that stay the same throughout the experiment.
How does the amount of leaves on a tree affect how many birds will build nests in it?
If you watch/monitor two different trees for bird nests, then the one with the most leaves will have more bird nests.
This is what goes on the X-Axis of a graph.
What is the Independent Variable (IV)?
The first step in the Scientific Method
What is Ask a Question: By making real world observations?
Observation of a Tree: It is Brown and has Green Leaves.
What is a Qualitative Observation of a Tree?
The variable that I change.
What is the Independent Variable?
How does the acid level of a lake affect how many fish live there?
If you tested lakes with different acid levels and how many fish they have, then the lake with the lower acid level would have more fish.
This is what goes on the Y-Axis of a graph.
What is the Dependent Variable (DV)?
The second step in the Scientific Method
What is Making a Hypothesis: An educated guess or answer to a problem or question?
Observation of a binder: 30cm Tall and 20cm Wide
What is a Quantitative Observation of your Binder?
What are some controlled Variables in the following experiment? Testing the growth of two plants with different amounts of sun light.
Same plant, same environment, same soil, same amount of water.
If I feed my dog Purina Dog Chow, then he will have more energy.
How does feeding your dog Purina Dog Chow affect them?
This is whats always at the top of any graph.
What is a Title?
The fourth step in the Scientific Method
What is Analyzing Results: Taking our findings and putting them into a table and graph?
Pick an Item in the room and give me 1 Quantitative and 1 Qualitative Observation.
Lets see
In the following experiment what is the independent variable? You are picking out 4 different ponds in the area. You will be measuring the temperatures of the ponds at 4 feet below the surface.
What is the 4 different ponds
if I give my teacher chocolate, then he will give me less homework.
How does giving my teacher chocolate affect how much homework we are given?
This is what we must always put next to the X and Y Axis.
What are labels?