Scientific Method

How do you make an observation and ask a question?

The scientific method starts with asking questions about something you observe using How, What, When,Who,Which,Why or Where? The question should be something you can measure. Use the library and internet research to help you answer questions.

What is an iterative process?

a series of steps or process that involves backing up and repeating. for example the scientific method.

What are the steps in the Scientific method includes?

1.)Make an observation and ask a question 2.)Construct a hypothesis 3.)Test your hypothesis by doing an experiment. 3.)Analyze your data 4.)Draw your conclusions and communicate your results.

What is the goal of scientific method?

To discover cause and effect relationships by asking questions, carefully gathering and examining the evidence, and seeing if all the available information can be combined in to a logical answer.

What is the scientific method?

is a series of steps or a process for experimentation that is used to explore observations and answer questions

The difference between a prediction and a hypothesis is

A hypothesis can be tested, usually with an experiment or observation while a prediction is a statement, which tells or estimates something that will occur in future.

What is a hypothesis?

A hypothesis is an educated guess about how things work. It is an attempt to answer your question with an explanation that can be tested. A good hypothesis allows you to then make a prediction: "If _____[I do this] _____, then _____[this]_____ will happen." State both your hypothesis and the resulting prediction you will be testing. Predictions must be easy to measure.

Analyze your data

Once your experiment is complete, you collect your measurements and analyze them to see if they support your hypothesis or not. Scientists often find that their predictions were not accurate and their hypothesis were not supported and in such cases they will communicate the results of their experiment and then go back and construct a new hypothesis and prediction based on the information they learning during their experiment. This starts much of the process of scientific method over again. Even if they find that their hypothesis was supported, they may want to test it again in a new way.

Test your hypothesis by doing an experiment

Your experiment tests whether your prediction is accurate and thus your hypothesis is supported or not. It is important for your experiment to be a fair test. You conduct a fair test by making sure that you change only one factor at a time while keeping all other conditions the same. You should also repeat your experiments several times to make sure that the first results weren't just an accident.

What will understanding the steps of scientific method do?

it will help you focus your scientific question and work through your observations and data to answer the question.

Draw your conclusions and communicate your results

to complete the scientific method. you will communicate your results to others in a final report, write up, or display board. Professional scientists do almost exactly the same thing by publishing their final report in a scientific journal or by presenting their results on a poster or during a talk at a scientific meeting,