The pneumonic to remember the steps of the Scientific Method
What is People Really Hate Elephants On Compact Cars?
The first step in the scientific method
What is Problem? (or question)
The axis of the dependent variable
What is the y-axis?
What you use to gather observations
The three main goals of science
What are investigate, explain, anda predict?
Features of an experiment that can be changed.
What are variables?
The axis of the independent variable
What is the x-axis?
The use of knowledge to identify or explain observations, or changes in ADVANCE.
What is a prediction?
A way science affects our daily lives
Open response
During your expirement you use your observations to collect this
What is data?
The axis that time is ALWAYS on
What is the x axis?
Explanation for the observations you have made based on your past experiences and or prior knowledge
What are inferences?
What a scientist looks like
There is no one answer!
The answer to your hypothesis using the data from your experiment
What is your conclusion?
The "average line" that connects through the general trend of the data that has been plotted
What is the "best fit curve"?
The two types of data
What are qualitative and quantitative?
Science is the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through _______ and _________.
Observation and experimentation
A constant that the variables in an experiment are compared to for analysis of the change
What are controls?
What you should always do before submitting a graph
What is PROOFREAD?
What can be inferred if a student gets an A on the quiz tomorrow
That they studied