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What is the Scientific Method?

The Scientific Method is an organized way of answering a science question. There are usually six parts to it.

    1. Purpose- What do you want to learn?

    2. Research- Find out as much as you can.

    3. Hypothesis- Try to predict the answer to the problem. Another term for hypothesis is 'educated guess'. This is usually stated like " If I...(do something) then...(this will occur)

    4. Experiment- The fun part! Design a test or procedure to confirm or disprove your hypothesis.

    5. Analysis- Record what happened during the experiment. Also known as 'data'.

    6. Conclusion- Review the data and check to see if your hypothesis was correct.

The scientific method is used al over the world every day to make new discoveries.

NOW YOU KNOW!

 

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