- A logical and orderly way scientists collect information.
- The question you want to answer. In question form.
- Educated guess. A proposed solution or prediction based on your research. (If . . . then . . . because)
- Something that causes changes observed in your experiment. There should only be one in an experiment.
- Answer or solution based on observations. Accept or reject the hypothesis.
- Test your hypothesis. You may need to do this step more than once to see if the results are the same each time.
- Organize into charts, tables, drawing, and diagrams. You can decide what the information means.
- Part of the experiment that stays the same for all trials. Used for comparison.
- What part of the scientific method is this? How does the amount of water in a bottle affect the sound made when the bottle is tapped?
- What part of the scientific method is this? If the amount of water is more, then the sound will be lower when the bottle is tapped.
- What part of the scientific method is this? One baker scooped his flour for the cookie shape and the other rolled his cookie into a ball.
- What part of the scientific method is this? Tap each bottle with a spoon.
- What part of the scientific method is this? The cookie spread to 2.5 inches.
- What part of the scientific method is this? The butter made the cookie thinner an crisper than the shortening.
- Can be counted, measured, and expressed using numbers.
- Descriptive and conceptual