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The Scientific Method. What are the Steps?. Take a minute to yourself and write down as many steps of the scientific method as you remember. Steps. Observe Question Hypothesis Experiment Analyze Results Conclusion. Observation. Using your senses to learn more about a situation.
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What are the Steps? • Take a minute to yourself and write down as many steps of the scientific method as you remember.
Steps • Observe • Question • Hypothesis • Experiment • Analyze Results • Conclusion
Observation • Using your senses to learn more about a situation. • Usually statements like the car is blue. The solution smells acrid. The bird sounds shrill. The solution tastes acidic. • What are some observations you can make about the following picture?
Power of Observation • Watch the clip. • What are some observations you can make? • List all observations you have on a sheet of paper.
Formulating Questions • Taking your observations and formulating a list of questions from your observations. • If you observe a bird flying into a window you may ask why would a bird fly into a window.
Patterson Film • Using your list of observations formulate some questions from the Patterson Film. • What questions do you have? • Film
Formulating a Hypothesis • Proposing an answer to one of the questions you generated. • Must be specific and testable. • Usually a statement about one variable. • Variable-something that can be changed in an experiment.
Experiment • Testing the hypothesis. • Must used a controlled experiment. • A controlled experiment tests only one variable.
Analyze Results • Look at the results from the experiment. • Put the results into some kind of visual. • Graph, table, chart…etc.
Conclusion • Once you have the visual come up with a conclusion from your findings. • Interpreting Results
Tomorrow’s Experiment • Reaction Time Lab • Uses a ruler to judge the reaction time of different people. • We will apply the scientific method to judge the best reaction time in the class.