SCIENTIFIC METHOD

_____is an educated guess about how things work. It is an attempt to answer your question with an explanation that can be tested.

• Hypothesis

• Research

• Experiment

_____is a process for experimentation that is used to explore observations and answer questions.

• Analyze Your Data

• Scientific Method

• Communicate Your Results

_______developed the scientific method

• Thomas Aquinas

• Francis Bacon

• Aristotle

__________Once your experiment is complete, you collect your measurements and analyze them to see if they support your hypothesis or not.

• Communicate Your Results

• Materials List

• Conducting an Experiment

• Analyze Your Data

______is a group of people, objects, or items that are taken from a larger population for measurement.

• Sample

• Variables

• Hypothesis

_______ scientist using library and Internet

• Ask a Question

• Test Your Hypothesis

• Background Research

_______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.

• Hypothesis

• Finding Information

• Experiment

_________a way for scientists to demonstrate that something it is true or false.

• Collect Data

• Ask a Question

• Examine the Results

_______is used to explore cause-and-effect relationships between two or more variables.

• Experimental research

• Descriptive research

• Correlational studies

_________Explain how the information collected was analyzed,

Discuss what the results mean

• Test Your Hypothesis

• Examine the Results

• Report the Results