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What is the Scientific Method? |
A system of steps used to solve a problem. |
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What is the first step of the scientific method? |
Ask a question / Identify a problem |
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How do you come up with a question or problem to answer? |
Make observations |
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What is the difference between a hypothesis and a prediction? |
A hypothesis can be tested |
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What do you call the instructions or steps on how to do the experiment? |
Procedure |
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What do you call data that are observations? |
Qualitative Data |
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What do you call the data that you measure? |
Quantitative Data |
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Which step of the scientific method would you find a graph that explains what happened? |
Analyze |
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Which step answers the original question (problem) and summarizes your findings? |
Conclusion |
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Which step is not found in your lab write up, and is the last step of the scientific method? |
Communicate Information |
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Do you follow the same steps every time? |
No, you may do things twice or skip them all together. |
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What some ways to communicate information? |
Poster, video, power point, verbally share, or posting online. |
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What is something you are not changing in an experiment? |
A Constant |
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What is something you are changing each time in an experiment to find different results? |
A Variable |
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What is the change that you make on purpose to test your hypothesis? |
Independent or manipulated variable |
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In an experiment: the growth of a plant is the: |
dependent variable |
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In an experiment: the different types of liquids on a plant is the: |
independent variable |
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observation
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use your five senses to recognize or take note of things around you.
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qualitative observation
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A type of observation that includes qualities.
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hypothesis
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Making a educational guess.
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experiment
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A test trial to see if your hypothesis is supported or not supported.
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variable
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a condition in an experiment that can be changed to affect the results.
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Recording
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Writing down your observations or measurements.
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classifying
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to put things into groups according to their characteristics
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characteristics
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a distinguishing trait quality or property
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communicating
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to share information ideas or feelings with another person by talking writing etc
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measuring
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to find out the length capacity volume weight etc
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inferring
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to draw a conclusion after considering all the facts
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predicting
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to say what you think will happen based upon the information you have
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reporting
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telling others what you have discovered
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