The four parts of the scientific method
🗸🗸: Making observations
Formulating a hypothesis
Performing experiments and making observations
Coming to a conclusion
Observations
🗸🗸: Details of the natural world we notice using our senses.
Inductive Reasoning
🗸🗸: Creative thinking to combine isolated facts into a cohesive whole.
Hypothesis
🗸🗸: Developed following observations and is apossible explanation for a natural event.
Experiments include 2 things:
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🗸🗸: Materials and procedures.
When an experiment is done in a laboratory, all conditions are kept constant, except for an
__________
🗸🗸: Experimental variable.
Experimental variable is __________________.
🗸🗸: Deliberately changed in an experiment.
One or more ____________ is exposed to the experimental variable.
🗸🗸: Test group.
The ______________ is not exposed to the exper imental variable.
🗸🗸: Control group.
Data is...
🗸🗸: The results of an experiment or further observations.
Independant variable
🗸🗸: What you change in the experiment. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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