Scientific Method Short

Noteshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuKRgjm0KJU

What are the steps?• From the music video, and

your background knowledge, can you tell me some of the steps of the scientific method?

The method behind the madness…

• The scientific method is a list of steps that help us go from a problem to a solution.

• The scientific method is flexible. Sometimes we add in steps, remove steps, or change steps.

Problem• The question you want to

answer.

Research• Any background

knowledge you already have or any new

information you find out.

Hypothesis• An educated guess to

your problem. This is based on your experiment.

Conduct Experiment• This is where you lay out

and go through with a plan to solve your

problem.

• Independent Variable – The piece you are manipulating, can be found in the “if” part of your hypothesis

• Dependent Variable – The piece you are measuring, can be found in the “then” part of your hypothesis

• Control Variable – Everything else that remains the same

Analyze Data• Qualitative Data –

observing something like color, texture, taste, smell

• Quantitative Data – uses numbers to describe data (Hint: Quality = numbers)

Conclusion• In the conclusion you

analyze your data, discuss error, ask

additional questions and plan your next experiment