The Scientific Method - Luis Ardon

The Scientific Method - Luis Ardon

1. Ask a Question: In this step of the scientific method you will ask yourself what is the problem you want to focus on, and generate a question you want to get answers to based on what you asked yourself.

   • Do background research: Research on the question and the topic your about to focus on, to seek for valuable information, information you may be able to use for your own experiment or to see if someone else had already asked the same question.
     • Formulate a hypothesis: Formulate an educated guess on what's going to happen in the test. The hypothesis is the one being tested during the experiment phase to see if it's true or false. It usually follows the template of: "If [Blank], Then [Blank]".
       • Test with an experiment: Formulate the process for the experiment, from what you need to start with (materials) to how they are going to be used.
         • Analyze data and draw conclusions: Once finalized the experiment, with results on hand analyze them. Find out if the hypothesis was true or not. Once you've found out if the hypothesis is true or not elaborate your conlclusion in which you indicate your findings and support the decision you made regarding the truthness or falseness of your hypothesis
           • Communicate results: Finally, share your results with other scientists since they could be able to develop another question or hypothesis from your conlusion and your findings; or they may use your information to take into account when doing their experiment.