Scientific Method
What step of the Scientific Method is where you gather information about the question?
What is Research?
What type of variable is purposefully kept the same in each of the experiments?
What is the controlled variable?
What should a claim always have?
What is an IV, DV, and a clear direction statement about how the IV will change the DV?
How is temperature measured in the metric system?
What is Celsius?
What section of the CER should this sentence go?
The graph shows that as temperature increases, the amount of UV radiation also increases?
What is the evidence section?
What step of the Scientific Method comes after research?
What is creating a hypothesis?
What variable is changed by the researcher on purpose?
What is the IV?
In order to write a CER, what is the first step?
What is collect and display the data (evidence) in order to create the claim?
How is length measured in the metric system?
What is meter?
If you wanted to know whether vitamin B will help you earn better grades, what would the IV, DV, and control variables be?
IV: Vitamin B
DV: Grades
Controls: same amount and type of vitamin B, same class, keeping other studying stuff the same...
What is a hypothesis?
What is a statement that is a prediction, or guess, about what will happen in the experiment.
What variable is observed for change or measured to see the impact?
What is the DV?
What two things must a written evidence section include?
What is a) the major pattern in the data and b) at least two specific data points to prove it?
1.234 dag is the same as how many dg?
What is 123.4 dg?
What is wrong with this claim AND rewrite it.
The amount of water impacts the plant growth.
What is the claim is too general by not saying if more (or less) of the IV will lead to more (or less) of the DV.
Rewritten: When the amount of water increases, the plant growth also increases.
What two things should a hypothesis always have?
What is an IV and a DV?
In a graph, on what axis does the IV go?
What is the X-axis?
What is the purpose of the reasoning section?
What is to explain WHY; to explain the science behind why the results are the way they are.
3.4567 meters is how many Mm?
What is 0.0000034567 Mm?
(5 zeros before the 3)
Create a data table of the favorite superheroes in the 3rd Grade class at Howland.
4 kids like Superman, 2 kids like Batman, 7 kids like Iron Man, 3 kids like Wonder Woman, and 5 kids like Black Panther.
The data table should have the superhero as the left column and the number of kids as the right column.
What part of the Scientific Method would this be?
Without music, my homework was completed in 8 minutes. With music, my homework was completed in 6 minutes
What is the data or results?
What is the right-hand column?
Which part of the CER should this sentence go?
"According to the first law of motion, something will keep moving until something else stops it."
What is reasoning?
In a measurement, what does the first letter represent and what does the second letter represent?
What is the prefix for the first letter?
What is the type of measurement for the second letter?
What is the Holy Cross Pillar that we are focusing on this year?
What is Being Family?