1. Tuesday, Aug. 16 Day 1 AR Book 1. Please have these
Science Starters
Sheet
Agenda
1. Please have these
Items on your desk.
Penny
lab
Your science starter today is two vocabulary words and their definitions.
Hypothesis
Conclusion

2. Conclusion: The final summary of an investigation; includes a restatement of the question and hypothesis, discusses the data, what the data means, problems.
Write the word on one side of an index card. Write the definition and a simple picture about the word on the back side of the index card.

3. Definitions
Hypothesis- A guess about the relationships between variables. The statement that can be tested. It can be written in an if/then, because format..
On an index card, write
The word on one side.
The definition on the other
Side of the card.
Draw a
Simple picture to explain the
Definition.

4. Table of Contents Update
Page Date Activity/ Assignment
17/18 8/16 Scientific Method Notes

5. A blueprint for experiment success.
Scientific Method
A blueprint for
experiment success.

6. What is the scientific method?
It is a simple method scientists use to conduct an investigation.
It is a way to ask & answer scientific questions by asking questions & conducting experiments.

7. I. Question/Problem Ask a question about something observed.
Why?
How?
What?
Question to be solved.
Must be about something measurable.

8. II. Hypothesis Educated guess about how things work. Prediction
Use If, then statements
If ____ [I do this], then _____ [this will happen], because (why will this happen).
Focus on one variable only.

9. Materials What are materials?
Any supplies you need to do to conduct an experiment

10. Procedures What are procedures?
Are a list of steps that scientists must use to conduct an experiment.

11. Experimental Design
Experimental Design- is the design of any information-gathering exercises where variation is present, whether under the full control of the experimenter or not.

12. III. Experiment-Gathering the data
Tests your hypothesis.
Is it accepted (correct) or refuted (incorrect) ?
Change only one variable at a time.
Use a control or control group (A group that has nothing done to it. Standard used for comparison in an experiment.)
In order for results to be valid, conduct several tests.

13. Data Collection
Data collection- is the process of collecting data and recording it to analyze later.

14. Analyzing What does analyzing mean?
This is when you look over data that you have recorded and try and come up with answers from those numbers or observations.

15. IV. Conclusion Summary of your experiment.
After your experiment, analyze your data to see if your hypothesis was accepted or rejected.
If hypothesis is rejected, give possible reasons for the difference between your hypothesis and the experimental results.