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The Scientific Method. 5 Parts of the Scientific Method. Big Question/Problem Hypothesis – What I think will happen. Procedure Results/Data/Observations Conclusions – What I learned. *Put these 5 steps in your notebook. Big Question/Problem.
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5 Parts of the Scientific Method • Big Question/Problem • Hypothesis – What I think will happen. • Procedure • Results/Data/Observations • Conclusions – What I learned. *Put these 5 steps in your notebook.
Big Question/Problem • The part of the experiment when a scientist asks… What do I have to investigate or figure out? • Good sentence starters are: • What… • How… • Does…
Hypothesis • What do you think will happen? What information do you already have about the topic that can help you figure it out? • Your hypothesis should be in the form of a statement… • If I do ________ then _______ will happen because _________. • I think __________ because ___________.
Procedure • Restate the procedure you are going to use to complete the experiment…IN YOUR OWN WORDS. • Do not copy the steps directly from the book. • If there are not steps for you to follow in a science book, design an experiment that will test your hypothesis and answer the Big Question.
Results/Data/Observations • The results from the experiment should be recorded in a way that will make sense to you later… • Paragraphs • Bullet Points • Table/Charts • Graphs • Diagrams/Drawings
Conclusion • Restate the Big Question as a topic sentence • In the investigation _________. • I (we) learned that __________. • Use information from your data to answer the Big Question… • I discovered that ________ because my data showed that_________. • Refer back to your hypothesis… • My hypothesis was correct/incorrect because______. • Every claim must be supported… • I liked/did not like _____ because_______. • Now I think that _____ because______. • My prediction that ____was_____ because ___.
Science Lab : Where did the water go?