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What do you want to learn more about?
What is Ask a Question (Step 1)?
A method for finding the answers to questions.
What is the scientific method?
The information that describes characteristics and is collected using the five senses.
What is qualitative data?
The variable or factor that is changed or manipulated in an experiment.
What is an independent variable?
Sight, Hearing, Smell, Taste, Touch
What are the five senses?
What do you think will happen?
What is Hypothesize / Form a Hypothesis (Step 2)?
An educated guess about what will happen in your experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
The information that can be counted or measured using numbers.
What is quantitative data?
The variable or factor that is observed or measured in an experiment.
What is a dependent variable?
The step when you present your experiment, observations, and conclusions?
What is Share Results (Step 6)?
What materials do you need? What steps will you take?
What is the Experiment / Conduct an Experiment (Step 3)?
The observations and measurements made during the experiment.
What is data?
Qualitative and Quantitative Data
What are the two types of data collected in an experiment?
The variable(s) or factor(s) that is/are kept the same in an experiment.
What is/are a controlled variable(s)?
Make THREE qualitative observations about the classroom.
Rectangle, White Tables; Maroon, Orange, Green, Light/Dark Blue, Brown, Black Chairs, White Doors, Gray Windows, Yellow, Green, Light/Dark Blue Balls
The answers do not have to be exact, so long as the students used their senses.
What did you see, hear, smell, taste, or touch? What did you count or measure?
What is Observe and Record Data (Step 4)?
The process of looking at data and deciding what it means.
What is an analysis?
Blue, Sizzling, Lemony, Sour, Slippery
What are examples of qualitative data?
Independent Variable, Dependent Variable, and Controlled Variable(s)
What are the three types of variables in experiments?
Make four quantitative observations about the classroom.
8 Tables, 32 Chairs, 18 Students, 2 Teachers
Others: Textbooks; Balls; Doors; Windows; Cardboard Boxes; White Boards; Backpacks; etc.
The answers do not have to be exact, so long as the students used numbers.
Was your hypothesis correct or incorrect? What did you learn?
What is Analyze and Draw Conclusions (Step 5)?
A statement that summarizes the results of an experiment
What is a conclusion?
11 years old, Year 2024, 110 Fifth Graders
What are examples of quantitative data?
Find the variables in the following experiment: What will happen if I drop Mentos into water, soda, juice, tea, or coffee?
Independent Variable(s) are the liquids used (water, soda, juice, tea, and coffee).
Dependent Variable(s) are the size and time of reaction.
Controlled Variable(s) are the Mentos used and amount of liquids used.
Create a hypothesis for the following question: What will happen if I drop Mentos into a bottle of Diet Coke?
If I drop Mentos into a bottle of Diet Coke, then a(n) explosion/reaction will occur.