A student is using a wafting technique to detect the scent of an unknown liquid substance.
What is a good behavior?
What is the first step to the scientific method?
State the problem based on observations.
Which Graph is best to use when you have a table that talks about an object moving?
Line Graph
A student is wearing safety goggles and an apron while working with baking soda and vinegar during a lab.
What is good behavior?
What is a hypothesis?
A Guess or prediction to the result
Which Graph is best to use when you have a table that talks about average rainfall per month?
Bar Graph
A student is wearing goggles and an apron while reaching across a hot plate to unplug it.
What is bad behavior? (no gloves and reaching across the burner)
What should you do if you reject your hypothesis?
Re-think/Re-write hypothesis
What is best to use when you have a table that deals with percentages?
Pie Chart
A student is wearing goggles and gloves while picking up broken glass from a beaker that was dropped on the floor.
What is bad behavior? (Tell the teacher!)
What do you use to make observations?
You use your five senses to make observations.
What do tables and graphs help you do?
They help you visualize/see numbers/data.
This is something you should do before you begin a lab and after you leave the lab.
What is wash you hands?
A student sits down at the lab table and immediately begins to read the lab directions and mixing unknown chemicals as indicated by the directions.
What is bad behavior? (The teacher did not tell them to start)
What is the last step to the scientific method?
Communicate Results
Which step of the scientific method are you most likely to use a table and chart?
Record and Analyze Data