research

• dependent and independent variable

  
• only the most brilliant scientists make important discoveries.
• all serendipitous discoveries are made on pure chance.
• scientists must always follow a strict plan to make successful research
• A scientist's good characteristics include patience, open mindedness, curiosity and intellectual honesty.
• Open mindedness


  Discusses ideas with other scientists
• Open mindedness


  Asks other scientists to provide evidence to support their ideas
• Open mindedness


  Evaluates ideas which do not agree with his or her ideas
• If you come across a scientific idea that goes against your common sense


  Look for published evidence or do an experiment
• The reason why the boy got a cold is not yet determinable.
• The boy got the cold from the person who rescued him.
• The boy probably had a cold starting before he went skating.
• The boy's cold is due to falling in the cold water and getting wet.
• Unripe banana is green.
• Ripe banana has a sweetest odor.
• The sweetness of banana depends on its variety.
• The ripening of bananas involves chemical change.
• Predicting


  Thinking what will happen based upon what you already know
• Classifying


  Separating your crayons into piles according to color
• Classifying


  Grouping rocks as sedimentary, metamorphic, or igneous
• Communicating


  Designing a picture without looking at the picture
• Hypothesizing


  Suggesting a possible explanation for the results of an experiment
• Predicting


  Thinking the football team will win their next game since they have won all their other games
• Observing


  Using your five senses
• Dependent variable


  Height of plants
• Dependent variable


  Amount of weeds killed
• Independent variable


  Types of pain reliever
• Dependent variable


  Amount of damage to the dummy