The Scientific Method

Gathering information from books, magazines, the internet, professionals. (Do a lot of this!)

• Problem

• Hypothesis

• Research

• Data

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

The educated guess that is based on research

• Problem

• Hypothesis

• Research

• Data

The part of the experiment that you change on purpose

• Independent Variable

• Hypothesis

• Dependent Variable

• Data

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

Anything in an experiment that changes

• Data

• Hypothesis

• Problem

• Variable

The part of an experiment that we measure. It changes because of the independent variable and we are measuring those changes.

• Independent Variable

• Hypothesis

• Dependent Variable

• Problem

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

This is what you compare your result to

• Control

• Hypothesis

• Dependent Variable

• Problem

State whether or not your hypothesis was correct, errors, application, and extensions

• Control

• Hypothesis

• Conclusion

• Problem

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

This is one way we communicate our results

• Control

• Graph

• Conclusion

• Problem

Collect as much of this as possible!

• Control

• Graph

• Conclusion

• Data

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Always written in question form

• Control

• Problem

• Conclusion

• Data

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3