Vocabulary
What is a hypothesis?
An educated guess or prediction of what you think the outcome will be
A series of steps designed to help you solve problems and answer questions
A) scientific method
B) experiment
C) hypothesis
D) observation
A) scientific method
If you're doing an experiment, this is what you measure to see if your change made a difference, like how tall the plant grows.
the dependent variable
The information (evidence) gathered from observations and experimentation is called
Data
If an accident happens in the lab, what is the first thing you need to do?
Tell the teacher
What is gathering information by using your senses: such as seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching?
Observations
What is the 1st step of the scientific method?
Make an Observation and Ask a QUESTION!!
The one thing that changes in the experiment. It is the thing you change on purpose, like how much water you give a plant.
the Independent Variable
To carefully study something and break it down into its smaller parts to understand it better. Making sense of the data, looking for patterns, finding trends, etc.
Analyze
Before starting any lab, you should first
Read all the directions
What is an activity designed to test a hypothesis?
A list of objects needed for an experiment.
Materials
If you are doing an experiment, what is the part called that you want to remain constant? These things stay the same throughout the experiment.
The control
What 2 words should always be in your hypothesis statement?
If, Then
What term describes the safety tool we use when protecting eyes in the science lab?
Goggles
An explanation of the results of an experiment.
Conclusion or results
What is the last step of the scientific method?
The conclusion & communicating results
A scientist conducted an experiment to determine how the amount of salt in a body of water affects the plants that can live in the water. In this experiment the independent variable is
A) the types of plants
B) the amount of salt in the water
the amount of salt in the water
What type of data is Descriptive or Physical Data?
Qualitative
True or False: After completing a lab, you should ask others to help you put away all science equipment and clean up your lab area.
False: Don't ask others. YOU CLEAN UP BEHIND YOURSELF!!!
What is it called where we are seeking to understand and describe the world around us?
Science
What are the steps to the scientific method?
Observation/Question
Research
Hypothesis
Experiment
Collect & Analyze Data
Communicate Results
Different preservatives were tried in foods to determine which best restricted the growth of molds. What is the dependent variable?
Growth of Mold
What type of data is Numerical Data and Measurements?
Quantitative
Mr. Hendrick told them not to mix the chemicals, but Sam and Mark never listened to Mr. Hendrick. After all, he was always telling them not to do this or not to do that. Now that the classroom had been destroyed, both of the boys wished that this time they had listened to Mr. Hendrick.
What was the effect of the boys not listening to Mr. Hendrick about the chemicals?
A. The boys decided to listen in the future
B. The boys got a bad grade in Science, causing them to fail the class.
C. Mr. Hendrick taught the boys lab safety.
B. The boys got a bad grade in Science, causing them to fail the class.