The Scientific Method
The steps scientists follow to solve a problem.
What is the scientific method?
The Constitution was written at this famous meeting.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
People who lived through an event and tell about it are giving this kind of source.
What is a primary source?
The New York City towers that were attacked on 9/11.
What are the Twin Towers (World Trade Center)?
Information you collect with your senses.
What is qualitative data?
An educated guess based on observations.
What is a hypothesis?
The men who wrote the Constitution are often called this.
Who are the Founding Fathers (or Framers)?
A textbook or a podcast about history is this kind of source.
What is a secondary source?
The building in Washington, D.C. also attacked on 9/11.
What is the Pentagon?
When a scientist lets personal beliefs affect results, this is happening.
What is bias?
The factor in an experiment that is changed on purpose.
What is the independent variable?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
When we put events in order from first to last, we are making a ____.
What is a timeline?
People who are the first to respond in emergencies (firefighters, police, EMTs).
Who are first responders?
The country the American colonies declared independence from.
What is Great Britain?
The factor that changes in response to the independent variable.
What is the dependent variable?
The system where each branch can limit the power of the others.
What are checks and balances?
When we ask, “Who wrote this? Why? When?” we are checking a source’s ____.
What is reliability (or bias)?
A person who causes violence for political reasons.
A person who causes violence for political reasons.
The main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The factors kept the same in an experiment.
What are the control variables (or constants)?
The Constitution begins with these three famous words.
What is “We the People”
The first meeting of the Continental Congress took place in this city.
What is Philadelphia?
A monument or ceremony that honors people who died is called a ____.
What is a memorial?
This man from Pennsylvania helped edit and finalize the Declaration.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?