Scientific Method

The way scientist study and learn about the world.

Using your five senses to gather information about something.

Using your sense to describe the characteristics of an object-color, texture, and taste.

Using numbers or measurements to describe something.

An explanation of an observation based on prior knowledge.

A prediction based on prior knowledge. Always written in an if then statement.

Any factor that can be manipulated, controlled for, or measured in an experiment.

What must stay the same in the experiment.

The thing that you are testing or changing in an experiment and it is graphed on the X-axis.

What you are measuring or observing in an experiment and it is graphed on the Y-axis.

C = Claim E = Evidence R = Reasoning

Is the answer to the question you are trying to answer.

Scientific data that supports your claim.

The how or why the evidence supports our claims; scientific rule.

A written summary of an experiment that uses evidence to prove what you learned.