Scientific Process
The 1st Step of the Scientific Process.
What is "Identify a Problem or Pose a Question"?
Define a Claim.
What is "A statement, explanation, or answer to a research question"?
Define an Independent Variable
What is "The condition in an experiment that is changed by the scientist"?
The Heights High Falcon notices that the locker room has a strange mold growing in the showers. The Falcon decides to test out spraying lemon juice on half the mold. He sprays the other half of the mold with water. After 3 days of treatment there is no change in the amount of mold in the rooms.
Define the Independent Variable.
What is "Lemon Juice"?
The Problem Statement for the Mask Lab.
What is "Are Masks and Social Distancing effective at preventing the spread of Germs"?
The 4th Step of the Scientific Process.
What is "Answer the Question (Form a Claim)"?
Define Evidence.
What is "objective and unbiased information gathered from scientific experiments and observations"?
Define a Dependent Variable
What is "the variable that changes because of the independent variable"?
The Heights High Falcon notices that the locker room has a strange mold growing in the showers. The Falcon decides to test out spraying lemon juice on half the mold. He sprays the other half of the mold with water. After 3 days of treatment there is no change in the amount of mold in the rooms.
Define the Dependent Variable.
What is "Is there Mold"?
Name the Independent Variable in the Penny Lab.
What is "Soap and Vaseline"?
The 2nd Step of the Scientific Process.
What is "Construct and Perform Investigation (Observation, Experimentation, etc."?
Define Justification
What is "reasoning that explains the, why it supports the claim, and how the evidence answers the questions"?
Define a Control
What is "a condition within an experiment that stays the same throughout the experiment"?
Dr. Doom thinks that a special juice will make people quicker. Both groups have 30 people in them. Group A is given the special juice to drink while they work. Group B is given a juice that is not the special juice. Both groups were told that they were getting the special Hyper-Criminal juice. After a week, Dr. Doom counts how many banks each group has robbed. Group A robbed 31 banks, Group B robbed 43 banks.
Name 2 Controls in this experiment.
What is "They both had a week, they both had 30 people, they both were told they have the special drink"?
Name the Dependent Variables in the Mask Lab.
What are "the number of Germs"?
The 6th Step of the Scientific Process.
What is "Communicate your Discovery (Share your Claim)"?
The 5th Step of the Scientific Process.
What is "Engage in Argumentation"?
Define Science
Dr. Doom thinks that a special juice will make people quicker. Both groups have 30 people in them. Group A is given the special juice to drink while they work. Group B is given a juice that is not the special juice. Both groups were told that they were getting the special Hyper-Criminal juice. After a week, Dr. Doom counts how many banks each group has robbed. Group A robbed 31 banks, Group B robbed 43 banks.
Name the Independent Variable.
What is "Hyper-Criminal Juice"?
Name the Dependent Variables in the Penny Lab.
What are "How many drops of Water were on a Penny"?
The 3rd Step of the Scientific Process.
What is "Analyze and Interpret Data"?
Define Argumentation
What is "when scientists share and critique each other's claims (Peer Reviewing)"?
Define an Error
What is "a condition in an experiment that causes inaccurate results"?
Starscream thinks that a special fuel will make he and the other flying Decepticons quicker. Group A is given the special fuel while Group B is given a fuel that is not the special fuel. After the flight, Starscream records how far each group was able to fly in total. Group A flew 550 kilometers, Group B flew 625 kilometers.
Name the Dependent Variable.
What is "How Far each one Flew"?
What are "Spray Water, Spray Distance, Spray Position, Petri Dish Size, Number of Sprays, Distance of Mask, Everyone wore Gloves, the Type of Mask, etc"?