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The Scientific Method

The Scientific Method. Unit 1. Objectives. What is the Scientific Method?. The Scientific Method is the steps and principles that guide scientific questioning and discovery. The Scientific Method provides a standard for scientific discovery.

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The Scientific Method

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  1. The Scientific Method Unit 1

  2. Objectives

  3. What is the Scientific Method? • The Scientific Method is the steps • and principles that guide scientific • questioning and discovery. • The Scientific Method provides a • standard for scientific discovery. • Not all science follows the Scientific • Method

  4. Questioning Step 1: Questioning Develop a question that can be tested or investigated for better understanding.

  5. Observation and Research Step 2: Observation and Research Observation – Using your senses to gather information about the world. Your senses are touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight. Tools, such as a ruler, can also be used to help in observation. Research – Using resources to gain a better understanding of the world around you.

  6. Develop a Hypothesis Step 3: Develop a hypothesis Based on observation and, develop a hypothesis by predicting a possible outcome for the question that can be tested or investigated.

  7. Experiment and Investigate Step 4: Experiment and Investigate Experiment – an organized procedure to study something under controlled conditions with variables present Investigate – to examine, study, or inquire in an organized manner, variables not present.

  8. Collect and Analyze Data • Step 5: Collecting and Analyzing Data • How do scientists collect information? • Observing • Measuring • Types of Data • Quantitative – numeric, measurable data • Qualitative – descriptive data • Organizing Data • Graphing • Modeling

  9. Drawing Conclusion and Inferences Step 6: Drawing Conclusions and Inferences When drawing a conclusion, you are drawing an inference from collected data. Your conclusion will accept or reject your hypothesis.

  10. Communicating Results Step 7: Communicating Your Results Communicating your results is important in a scientific community. Support your conclusion and be prepared to answer questions and admit experimental/investigational flaws.

  11. Science Process Skills • Science Process Skills – the skills used in the process of science • Observation • Communication • Classification • Measurement • Inference • Prediction

  12. Sources Used step.nn.k12.va.us/science/6th_science/ppt/Scientific_Method.pp newton.uor.edu/facultyfolder/tyler_nordgren/.../FYS_SciMethod.ppt http://www.longwood.edu/cleanva/images/sec6.processskills.pdf

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