Vocabulary
prediction; educated guess
What is hypothesis?
What do you call the group in an experiment that receives no changes?
What is the control group?
The plant is noticeably shorter than it was yesterday.
What is qualitative data?
What step is this?
Use your five senses to make observations about the world around you. These observations make you curious and might cause you to . . .
What is Step 1: Pose Questions?
TRUE OR FALSE:
If your hypothesis is proven to not be true, you have failed using the scientific method.
What is FALSE?
A disproven hypothesis is still helpful to know! It often times leads to another experiment.
information gathered about the experiment
What is data?
uses your senses to gather information
What is observation?
What is quantitative data?
What step is this?
Record what happened during the experiment. Once your experiment is complete, study your findings to see if it supports your hypothesis or not.
What is Step 5: Analyze Data?
The number of variables that you can change in an experiment.
What is one?
model or guide used to gather information and solve problems
What is the scientific method?
an activity that is planned and designed to test a hypothesis
What is experiment?
Geico munched on seventeen mealworms before he dozed off to sleep.
What is quantitative data?
What step is this?
Familiarize yourself with the problem at hand. Learn everything you can to understand your question.
What do you need to know and how can you create an effective experiment?
What is Step 2: Conduct Research?
In a final conclusion, what are some of the requirements you should ABSOLUTELY INCLUDE?
(If you can get 2/3, I will give you credit)
(If you get 3/3, DOUBLE POINTS)
What is . . .
1. State whether your hypothesis was correct or not.
2. Go over your experiment/hypothesis and explain what you did.
3. Include data to support your conclusion.
the variables that you choose to keep the same in an experiment
What are control variables?
In an experiment, one group receives the experimental change that you are testing. What do we call this group?
What is the experimental group?
What is . . . distance from locker, locker combo, number of items you're putting in your locker, time it took you to open your locker, etc.
What step is this?
Design a test or procedure to determine if your hypothesis is correct. Gather all materials needed for this test before conducting it! It is important to be accurate and organized when testing your hypothesis.
What is Step 4: Design an Experiment?
What step is this?
If ______________, then ____________
because __________________________.
A logical prediction. An educated guess that attempts to answer your question with an explanation that can be tested.
What is Step 3: Form a Hypothesis?
In the Coke + Mentos Experiment, your team chose to double an ingredient. What do we call the type of variable that the scientist chooses to test?
What is the independent variable?
In the Germ Lab, your team observed the amount of bacteria/fungi that grew in your agar dish. What type of variable is the amount of bacteria/fungi in this experiment?
What is the dependent variable?
Give an example of qualitative data from the Coke + Mentos experiment.
For DOUBLE POINTS: name all five senses that are used to make qualitative observations.
What is . . . (examples vary)
sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing
What step is this?
A final understanding of the experiment. Once the data is collected and analyzed, this is the last step. It’s time to determine whether or not a hypothesis was accurate or not.
This step either ends the scientific method or sparks curiosity in a new question and the process begins all over again.
What is Step 6: Draw Conclusions?
In the following statement, what is the hypothesis? Jamie noticed that many of the plants in her yard were dying. She saw some June bugs in the area one day. She wanted to try to figure out what was happening to her plants. She thinks that if June bugs live near her plants, then they will die faster than plants without the June bugs.
What is "if June bugs live near her plants, then they will die faster than plants without the June bugs."