Scientific Inquiry
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What is scientific inquiry
Any process used to ask and answer testable questions about observations of the natural world
Scientific inquiry characteristics
there are different paths uses the steps of the scientific method not just for scientists
Scientific inquiry requires……
testable questions collecting and analyzing data verification
Creativity is important for…..
formulating a question designing an experiment solving a problem interpreting results
1950s biologists
knew DNA controls heredity did not know the structure of the DNA
James Watson and Francis Crick
built models of DNA using sticks and spheres used creativity discovered the double-helix structure
Who is Sir Francis Bacon
an English Philosopher, scientist, and lawyer
What did he discover as means of standard procedure for science
Baconian Method
What did Francis Bacon believed science should be
practical and useful
The basis of the scientific method
process of hypothesis and investigation used to ask and answer testable questions on observations
Step 1 of the scientific method
ask a question based on observation
Step 2 of the scientific method
form a hypothesis
Step 3 of the scientific method
make a prediction
Step 4 of the scientific method
perform an experiment
Step 5 of the scientific method
analyze the results and draw conclusions
Step 6 of the scientific method
accept or reject the hypothesis
Step 7 of the scientific method
record and communicate the results
Parts of a lab report: title
description of question
Parts of a lab report: purpose
statement describing purpose of experiment
Parts of a lab report: question
which you gather information for
Parts of a lab report: hypothesis
question with a possible outcome, if…then….because
Parts of a lab report: variables
factors that are manipulated or observed during the experiment
Parts of a lab report: materials
supplies needed for experiment
Parts of a lab report: procedure
list of directions