The Scientific Method

The Scientific Method

1. approach to seeking knowledge that involves forming and testing a hypothesis.

   • Practice the discipline of science
   • Discovered, tested and verified by the use of scientific method

2. Observe and ask a question.

   • Help to formulate challenging questions That you are going to be able to test. Good question into a good line of investigation.

3. Do some research.

   • Find out if other people have ask the same question or similar

4. Propose a possible but testable explanation. (Hypothesis)

   • A theory you can test to see if the prediction is right or wrong

5. Test the hypothesis with experiments

   • Make it in a fair way and the conditions to be constant.

6. Analyze the data and draw a conclusion

   • Analyze the data to prove or disprove the hypothesis. Depending on the finging you change or not the hypothesis or the design of the testing

7. Share results

   • When you are satisfied that you have proven or disproven something important report the result

8. History

   • Ibn al-Haytham in 11th century
   • father of optics and the scientific method.

9. You van never prove your theory to be 100% right.

   • Not Perfect.
   • correlation is not always a cause