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A step-by-step process used to conduct an experiment or investigation
Scientific Method
What you want to know and can be answered through scientific investigation
Question
A prediction or smart guess about what you think might happen.
Hypothesis
A procedure used to test a hypothesis and determine whether or not it is correct
Experiment
To watch carefully, and notice importance
Observe
Information gathered through scientific investigation
Data
To carefully examine your observations and data to determine what you can learn from your experiment
Analyze
A final statement about your results that states whether or not your hypothesis was correct.
Conclusion
A question you can answer by doing an experiment.
Testable Question
What you think will happen before you test.
Prediction
One time you do the experiment.
Trial
The things you keep the same to make it a fair test.
Controlled Variable (Control)
The thing you measure to see what happened.
Dependent Variable
The one thing you change on purpose.
Independent Variable
Something that can change in an experiment.
Variable
What happened in the experiment.
Results
