Scientific method

_______ are made by using your senses and are more fact based.

• inferences

• observations

What would be an observation?

• The minions are at a party.

• The minions are yellow.

• It is Bob's birthday.

What would be an inference?

• The minions are wearing overalls.

• The minions are yellow.

• It is Bob's birthday.

A __________ is something that we expect to happen in the experiment. It is an "educated guess".

• hypothesis

• observation

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

• scientific method
• recipe
• data collection
• metric system

What is the first step in the scientific method?

• draw conclusions

• ask a question/make an observation

• make a hypothesis

• test the experiment

Should experiments be repeated over and over to see if the results are the same each time?

• yes
• no

The outcome of your test.

• variable
• results
• experiment
• question

What you learned from the experiment is the ___.

• conclusion
• hypothesis
• variable
• materials

True or False: Your hypothesis can never be wrong.

• True
• False