Scientific Inquiry
What is the first step to scientific inquiry?
Ask questions
The investigation and exploration of natural events and of the new information that results from those investigations
Science
First step to writing in scientific notation
Write the original number
Any factor that can have more than one value.
Variable
A possible explanation about an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations
Hypothesis
What is the second step to scientific inquiry?
Hypothesize and predict
Using one or more of your senses to gather information and take note of what occurs
Observation
Second step to writing in scientific notation
Move the decimal point to the right or left to make the number between 1 and 10. Count the number of decimal places moved and note the direction.
The factor that you want to test.
Independent Variable
Uses words to describe what is observed.
Qualitative Data
What are the 3rd and 4th step to scientific inquiry?
Test hypothesis
Analyze results
A logical explanation of an observation that is drawn from prior knowledge or experience
Inference
What is the % error formula?
The absolute value of the experimental value minus the accepted value all over the accepted value and then times one hundred.
The factor you observe or measure during an experiment.
Dependent Variable
Uses numbers to describe what is observed.
Quantitative Data
What are the 5th and 6th steps to scientific inquiry?
Draw conclusions
Communicate results
A statement of what will happen next in a sequence of events.
Prediction
What is 1,000,000,000,000 written in scientific notation?
1 x 1012
Different rose bushes are grown in a greenhouse for two months. The number of flowers on each bush is counted at the end of the experiment. What is the independent variable?
type of rose bush
Change the following question into a hypothesis: Does adding fertilizer affect the growth of a plant?
If I add fertilizer, then the plant will grow faster.
All 6 steps to scientific inquiry in order
Ask questions
Hypothesize and predict
Test hypothesis
Analyze results
Draw conclusions
Communicate results
Define scientific law
Describes a pattern or an event in nature that is always true
Mr. B told me my piece of iron should weigh 1 gram, my scale says it is 2 grams, what is my percent error?
100%
Different rose bushes are grown in a greenhouse for two months. The number of flowers on each bush is counted at the end of the experiment. What is the dependent variable?
Number of flowers
Change the following question into a hypothesis: How does classroom temperature affect student performance on a test?
If it is cold in the classroom, then student test performance will increase. (etc.)