What is the Scientific Method?

The Scientific Method is an organized way of answering a scientific 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!