SCIENTIFIC METHOD

SCIENTIFIC METHOD

1. ASK A QUESTION

   • DO BACKGROUND RESEARCH
     • CONSTRUCT A HYPOTHESIS
       • EXPERIMENT
         • CONCLUSION
           • RESULTS
             • To complete your science fair project you will communicate your results to others in a final report and/or a display board.
           • Once your experiment is complete, you collect your measurements and analyze them to see if they support your hypothesis or not.
         • Your experiment tests whether your prediction is accurate and thus your hypothesis is supported or not. It is important for your experiment to be a fair test. You conduct a fair test by making sure that you change only one factor at a time while keeping all other conditions the same. You should also repeat your experiments several times to make sure that the first results weren't just an accident.
       • A hypothesis is an educated guess about how things work. It is an attempt to answer your question with an explanation that can be tested.
     • Rather than starting from scratch in putting together a plan for answering your question, use library and Internet research to help you find the best way to do things and ensure that you don't repeat mistakes from the past.
   • The scientific method starts when you ask a question about something that you observe