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Determine a question to be
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| Form a hypothesis /Prediction |
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Gather information and propose an
answer to the question. |
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| Test the hypothesis/Prediction |
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Perform experiments or make
observations to see if the
hypothesis is supported. |
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Look for patterns in the data that
have been collected. |
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| Decide what the test results mean. Communicate your results. |
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| The scientific method is a way to ask and answer scientific questions by making observations and doing experiments. |
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| To insure that your experiment is a fair test, you must change only one factor at a time while keeping all other conditions the same. |
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| After having thoroughly researched your question, you should have some educated guess about how things work. This educated guess about the answer to your question is called the hypothesis. |
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| Once you find a general topic that interests you, write down the question that you want to answer. A scientific question usually starts with: How, What, When, Who, Which, Why, or Where. |
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| Once you find a general topic that interests you, write down the question that you want to answer. A scientific question usually starts with: How, What, When, Who, Which, Why, or Where. |
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| Trying the experiment with the same variable to observe the results. |
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