Duplicate of Scientific Method

These are made using the five senses. They create curiosity and lead to questions.

Gather information on an interesting topic using the five senses.

"If the raspberries do not get enough rain then they will not grow." This is an example of...

Raspberry plants were placed in the same amount of sunlight and given different amounts of H2O.

I learned from my experiment that Tide best washes the ketchup stain out of a shirt.

"I wonder if Tide or All laundry soap will best clean the ketchup stain?" This is a

If I use Tide and All laundry soaps then tide will best get out the stain. This is a

Explanations about what you are observing.

"I wonder why the raspberries did not grow well this year?" This is a...

This is an educated guess about the answer to your problem.

This is stated as a question. It is created from the curiosity that observations lead to.

This is a well thought-out test that allows the scientist to find the answer to the problem.

Record the growth of the raspberry plants.

The raspberry plant receiving the most water grew the biggest. This is the...

I wash 2 of the same shirts with the same size ketchup stain in two different soaps for 5 mins.

This is the answer to your problem based on the outcome of your experiment.

One day I was putting away my clothes and noticed a ketchup stain. This is an...

"I see that the raspberries did not grow well this year" is which step of the SM?

These are documented changes that occurred in the experiment; data, tables, graphs are used.

I make a chart and record what happened to the stain after washing in each soap.