Scientific Inquiry
The Steps to Follow
Writing it Up
The Process
Examples
100
things you can change and/or measure in your experiment
What are variables?
100
things that you will keep the same throughout the experiment
What are constants?
100
The detailed steps that you followed to do your experiment.
What is the procedure?
100
The measurements and/or observations you record.
What is raw data?
100
The kind of graph that this data is represented on.
What is a bar graph?
200
What scientists do to test a hypothesis.
What is an experiment?
200
The process of getting information by using the senses.
What is an observation?
200
The list of things and equipment you use in an experiment.
What are the materials?
200
The process of science.
What is scientific inquiry/investigation?
200
The grass type, the amount of sunlight, the temperature, and the amount of fertilizer in both groups.
What are the constants?
300
The variable you change in the experiment.
What is an independent variable?
300
Hypothesis
What is a predicted answer to a question used to guide your experiment that must be testable?
300
The place where you record the data.
What is a data table?
300
You decide if your hypothesis was supported or rejected with the data you collected.
What is "make a conclusion"?
300
If (independent variable), then (dependent variable), because...
What is the best way to state a hypothesis?
400
the thing being measured… it depends on what has been changed
What is a dependent variable?
400
An observation
What is what you record, depending on the design of your experiment?
400
A way to represent the raw data.
What is a graph?
400
The act of investigating or collecting information to make a conclusion
What is scientific inquiry?
400
This kind of graph.
What is a line graph?
500
In an experiment, the group to which the independent variable is applied.
What is the experimental group?
500
What you do after you make observations about the world around you.
What is ask a question?
500
At the end of your experiment, this is a paragraph you write where you re-state your question and hypothesis, explain how it was supported or rejected and how you could make future improvements.
What is the conclusion?
500
One way to do science: a cycle of steps to follow to investigate
What is the Scientific Method?
500
In this experiment, the fertilizer type is this.
What is the independent variable?