Constants, Controls, and Variables Experimental Design

Independent Variable What YOU test (change) in the experiment or scenario You should only use one at a time This will affect your results

Dependent Variable The result (outcome) that occurred because of the Independent Variable (what you tested).

Constant What stays the same throughout the experiment/scenario both for the control and the experimental.

Control What you compare your variables to.

Let’s put this into real world perspective! What's Cooking with Bill Nye!

Quiz - Flower Power SpongeBob loves to garden and wants to grow lots of pink flowers for his pal Sandy. He bought a special Flower Power fertilizer to see if will help plants produce more flowers. He plants two plants of the same size in separate containers with the same amount of potting soil. He places one plant in a sunny window and waters it every other day with fertilized water. He places the other plant at the same sunny window but waters it with plain water every other day.