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Scientific Method: for Dickerson Scientific Steps - A simple guide for the early scientist.
(Our thanks to Mrs. Spiri Howard, 1st grade teacher at Dickerson, for supplying us with this easy-to-understand explanation of the Scientific Method!) The First Step
Statement
State the problem What do we want to know?
Can this happen?
Your first step should be a question.
My question is:
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This step is your prediction.
What do you think will happen?
This is what I think will happen:
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Experiment
What are we testing?
How are we testing it?
What are the steps to my experiment?
My experiment is:
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This is the information we get from our experiment.
You need to record your information.
You can write it down in a book or take pictures of it.
For this experiment I am going to record the data by:
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Conclusion
What happened?
Was your hypothesis (prediction) right?
Did things work out the way you thought?
My conclusion was:
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