Scientific Method/Tools

A series of steps used by scientists to solve a problem or answer a question. 

• scientific method
• recipe
• data collection
• metric system

A prediction or a good scientific guess.

• Data

• Observation

• Hypothesis

• Test

Scientists ask this at the beginning of an experiment

• Question

• Data

• Observation

• Hypothesis

The steps of an experiment are called ___.

• steps

• observations

• variables

• procedures

The information we gather in an experiment

• steps

• procedure

• data

• experiment

The results and what you learned during an experiment is called

• conclusion

• data

• observation

• hypothesis

The things we need to complete an experiment are called:

• materials

• data

• conclusion

• observation

Things that we notice in an experiment using what we see, hear, smell ,taste are called

• data

• procedure

• observations

• materials

Brian is doing an experiment with plants. He makes a good scientific guess that one plant will grow taller than the other. The guess Brian made is called a:

• data

• hypothesis

• observation

• procedure

Sadie was collecting measurements of the heights of the plants she grew in her science experiment. The measurements that Sadie wrote down are:

• data

• hypothesis

• variable

• safety goggles