Question | Answer |
What is a Dependant/responding variable? | What you are trying to figure out. |
What is an independent/manipulative variable? | It is what changes in the experiment. |
What is a control? | The items in the experiment that stay the same. |
What is a Hypothesis? | An educated guess based off of an observation. |
What is an inference? | A conclusion based on an observation. |
What is the scientific method? | The steps in an experiment. |
The first step in the scientific method. | State the Problem: The question that you want to have answered. |
The second step in the scientific method. | Form a hypothesis: This is an educated guess based on observations and prior knowledge. |
The third step in the scientific method. | Create an experiment: It should have a manipulated variable, responding varibale, and one or more control variables. |
The forth step in the scientific method. | Perform an experiment: Follow the procedure that you created. Make observations. |
The fifth step in the scientific method. | Record and analyze data: Make a data table and/or a graph. |
The sixth step in the scientific method. | Discuss a conclusion: Explain what happened and why. Except or reject your hypothesis. |
The seventh step in the scientific method. | Repeat the work: You may need to change the experiment. |