hypothesising and experimenting

• what is the first step of the scientific method?

  make and observation
• step two of scientific method?

  Hypothesis
• what is a hypothesis?

  an educated guess
• step three of the scientific method?

  make a prediction
• step four in the scientific method?

  design an experiment
• step five in the scientific method?

  recording data
• step six of the scientific method?

  draw conclusions
• step seven in the scientific method?

  accepting or rejecting the hypothesis. making theories or principles
• a hypothesis must be testable and falsifiable
• a variable is any factor or condition that can be changed in an experiment
• what is an independent variable?

  something I change
• what is a dependant variable?

  something that changes as a result
• what is a control variable?

  something that is kept the same to ensure the experiment is fair
• qualitative data is data we observe with our senses
• quantitative data is data that involves measurement and are numerical values