Observations
This type of observation relies on the 5 senses.
What is a Qualitative observation?
In a study where different rose bushes are grown in a greenhouse for two months and the number of flowers are counted at the end of the experiment, this is the independent variable.
What is the type of rose bush?
To examine something in detail in order to discover meaning.
What is analyze?
The steps or directions for an experiment.
What is the procedure?
In the skittle lab, this was the independent variable.
What was the temperature of the water?
This type of observation requires the researcher to count or measure something.
What is a Quantitative observation?
In a study where you water 3 sunflower plants with salt water and each plant gets a different concentration of salt water, and then after 2 weeks the height of each plant is measured, this is the dependent variable.
What is the height of the sunflower plants?
Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.
What is data?
The question you are trying to answer with your experiment.
What is a research question?
In the plant lab, this was the dependent variable.
What is the height of the plants?
The plants grew 5 cm in the first three days is an example of this type of observation.
What is a quantitative observation?
The variable that is measured?
What is the dependent variable?
The things you need to do your experiment?
What are materials?
The step of the scientific method where you tell other scientists what you did and what you discovered.
What is reporting your findings?
In the skittles lab, each time you dissolved the skittles was called this.
The monkeys are interacting with each other is an example of this kind of observation.
What is a qualitative observation?
The variable that the researcher changes.
What is the independent variable?
A scientific procedure used to test a hypothesis.
What is an experiment?
Anything that can change or be changed in an experiment.
What is a variable?
Scientists use the scientific method for this reason.
What is so their work can be replicated or extended.
This is a statement about something you have noticed that can involve your 5 senses or numbers and measurements.
What is an observation?
A group or a variable that stays the same throughout the experiment (or the normal group).
What is a control?
Your best guess as to what will happen in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
The steps that all scientists use to conduct experiments and do research.
What is the scientific method?
The following statement is an example of this.
If we plant seeds in soil, then they will grow taller than seeds planted in rocks or sand.
What is a hypothesis?