Scientific Method

Which type of graph would you use? A boy measured his height every month for one year.

What is the fourth step of the scientific method?

The plant is 72 cm tall

A logical interpretation based on what the scientists already know. 

The person is sweating because they just finished doing jumping jacks.

Identify the DV: If you give a plant more water, it will grow taller.

The variable that is changed by the researcher

The plant is fuzzy.

Identify the IV: If you give a plant more water, it will grow taller.

What is the format for a hypothesis?

Data obtained through counting or measuring and can be written down with numbers.

Data that is descriptive and describes characteristics or qualities.

Identify the DV: If you drink coffee before going to bed, then it will take longer to fall asleep.

The person is sweating.

The room is 80 degrees F

What kind of graph would you use for this? A scientist counts how many bacteria colonies they see each day for 2 weeks.

What type of graph would you use? A person wants to know how many of their friends have different eye colors.

Exposed to exactly the same conditions as the experimental group, but does not receive the test variable.

What is the last step of the scientific method?

The variable that is observed and that changes in response to the independent variable.

What is the second step of the scientific method?

The group in an experiment that receives the variable being tested.

A scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it.

What is the fifth step of the scientific method?

What is the third step of the scientific method?

What is the first step of the scientific method?

Identify the IV: If you drink coffee before going to bed, then it will take longer to fall asleep.

The act of noticing or describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way.

If a person does 30 jumping jacks, then they will start sweating.