Scientific Method
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- Slide: 1
- Excellent! Scientist begin making an observation
- Plants don't get tired like people do. We should investigate
- Hey! why dose our class plant look tired?
- Maybe its tired!
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- Exactly. Scientist use questions to figure out what they want to investigate
- I have a question! Dose the amount of sunlight a plant gets affect how grows?
- That's a great scientific question!
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- Correct! You are predicting what you think will happen
- I have a hypothesis! I think the plant that gets more sunlight will grow taller
- A hypothesis is a testable prediction, right?
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- Great! You are changing one variable so you can see what effect sunlight has.
- We'll have two plants that are the same type and give them the same amount of water.
- Let's test it!
- But Plant A gets plenty of sunlight, while Plant B gets very little.
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- Scientists collect data so they can see what happened during the experiment.
- Plant A is 12 centimeters tall.
- Time to measure!
- Plant B is 7 centimeters tall.
- Let's record the measurements every few days.
- Slide: 6
- (Ms.G) Excellent! Remember, scientist don't have to be correct every time. If a hypothesis is not supported, scientists use the results to learn something new
- Plant A
- Plant B
- (Ethan) Our hypothesisWas supported by our results!
- 7cm
- 12cm
- -Plant A grew more than Plant B
- (Koris) Our conclusion is that the amount of sunlight affected the plant's growth
- Slide: 7
- Scientist are rarely finished
- I have another question! Dose the amount of soil affect how fast the plant grows?
- So, are we finished?
- Another Experiment
- Slide: 8
- SCIENCE SQUAD!
- SCIENCE SQUAD!
- SCIENCE SQUAD!
- SCIENCE SQUAD!