SIP

• THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

  • Observing and asking questions
  • Making inferences and horming hypotheses
  • Conducting controlled experiments
  • Collecting and analyzing data
  • Drawing conclusions
• Variables

  • Various factors that can change
• Independent variable

  • Also called the manipulated variable
  • Is what is tested and changed
• Dependent variable

  • The responding variable
  • Is measured and observed
• Control group

  • Doesn't receive the independent variable
• Experimental group

  • Receives the independent variable
• Data

  • Information from recorder observations
• Quantitative data

  • Numbers obtained by counting or measuring
• Qualitative data

  • Descriptive and involve characteristics that can't be counted