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1 EQ: What is the purpose of a controlled experiment?
Experimentation EQ: What is the purpose of a controlled experiment?

2 How do we analyze our results?
Organizing data into tables and graphs makes relationships between information easy to see

3 How do we draw conclusions? Why do we do a controlled experiment?
Conclude if your results support or do not support your hypothesis and tell WHY? To test a hypothesis

4 What is data? Any pieces of information that we get by experimenting

5 What is a controlled experiment?
Compares the results of a control group with the results from an experimental group *All factors stay the same except for 1.*

6 What is a variable? The factor that changes

7 SUMMARY In a controlled experiment all factors remain the same except one. The factor that changes is called the variable. We do a controlled experiment to test our hypothesis. Data is pieces of information. Results can be analyzed using tables and graphs. Your conclusion either supports or does not support your hypothesis.


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