The Scientic Method

The Scientic Method

Question/Problem Hypothesis Materials Method Observations Conclusion Evaluation Variables Bias Theory Law

Question/Problem

Your goal to achieve in the experiment BRIAN POP. SCIENCEBUDDIES.ORG

Inference/Hypothesis
Hypothesis a testable explanation, kind of like educated guess BRAIN POP

Materials
What you need to run the experiment, make a list make it specic SCIENCEBUDDIES.ORG

Method/Experiment
Experiment your problem BRAIN POP Its important that your experiment is a fair test. You make a fair test by making sure that you change only one thing at a time while keeping all other conditions the same SCIENCEBUDDIES.ORG

Observations

A prediction that has evidence BRAIN POP

Conclusion

Conclude the problem and think if your hypothesis was true or not if your hypothesis is incorrect then it has to be rethought BRAIN POP

Evaluation

Something you want to do better in the experiment the next time you do it.

Variables
The part of the experiment that changes BRAIN POP A variable is any factor, trait, or condition that changes SCIENCEBUDDIES.ORG

Bias
Something that will make it unfair

Theory
A theory is an explanatory statement that has been conrmed that its true BRAIN POP

Law
Repeated experiment.

Experiment 2: Animal camouage

Problem
How does camouage affect vision?

Hypothesis
People would choose contrasting colour over the matching colour.

Materials
Scissors,1 a4 brown paper, 2 a4 green paper, and group of people.

Method
Cut 1brown paper and 1 green paper into 1 inch squares. Mix the squares on the green paper. Tell the group of people that you are testing how fast their reex is. Give each person ve seconds to take the squares as much as they can in that time. Record how many green squares and how many brown squares they took. Do the other people using the same method.

Conclusion
Our hypothesis was correct. People took more brown squares. Here is a graph:

Evaluation
We should try this again and make a theory

Experiment 3: eggs experiment

Problem
How can I tell the difference between a cooked egg and raw egg?

Hypothesis
Cooked egg will spin very well raw will be slower.

Materials
2 raw eggs and 1 cooked egg.

Method
Spin each egg on a hard surface see what happens and record it.

Observation
When we shook the eggs 2 of them seemed like they had liquid inside. When we put them in water it didn't work and there was no difference.

Conclusion
When we spun the eggs one of them spun very fast. We think that the egg that moved fast was the cooked egg. Both the others spun very slowly

Evaluation
We should add more eggs

Experiment 4:Surface tension

Problem
If you bring different sizes of paper clip and let it oat will there be a difference between them?

Hypothesis
The bigger paper clip will oat better because it will have more surface tension

Materiels
Different size of paper clips, and a bowl of water.

Method
First bring several small paper clips and gently try to make them oat. Then get the big paper clips and try to oat them. Observe and record how many paper clips oated from the small ones and big ones.

Observation
The big paper clips did not oat maybe because it is heavier the small ones did.

Conclusion
My hypothesis was incorrect because the big paper clips did not oat. I think they didn't oat because they were heavier.

Evaluation
We should use a bigger bowl of water.

Experiment 5:Water balloon toss Problem/question

Will a balloon break in longer distance or the shorter?

Excerpt From: Robinson, Tom. The Everything Kids' Science Experiments Book. F+W Publications, Inc., 2001. iBooks.!

Hypothesis
The longer the distance between us the faster the balloon to break

Materials
1.Several lled water balloons 2.A friend who doesn't mind getting wet 3. Old clothes

Method
Pick up one balloon and stand facing your friend. Toss the balloon. After a successful catch, both of you take a step backward.After your friend tosses the balloon back to you, each of you takes another step backward. Continue this process until the balloon breaks. See how far apart you can get without breaking the balloon. Try this again but with bigger balloons.

Observation

We started by 3 meters away for each other then tried throwing the ball 4 times around but it didn't pop but it only popped when it hit something hard which doesn't count. When we were 8 meters apart the balloon popped much faster and easier. We noticed that The balloon seems to pop whenever we were further apart. The balloon seems to pop whenever it's in mid air. We noticed that the texture of the balloons affected when it popped. We realised that each balloon has a different texture. Each colour has a different way of popping. The higher we throw, the easier it breaks. On our last balloon it slid onto the ground and because of friction the balloon popped.

Conclusion
When we were 8 meters apart the balloon seemed to pop the fastest and the easiest and our hypothesis was proven right.

Theory
The balloon kept on popping when we were further apart for each other and the higher we threw it, it would pop in mid-air.

Experiment 6:Cow's methane

Problem/questions
Will adding garlic to cows feed reduce the amount of methane produced?

Hypothesis
Adding garlic won't work, because it causes more stink,like bad breath.

Materials
Garlic 20 cows Cows food A machine that can test air An empty room

Method
1. Put cow in empty room for 2 weeks,Add garlic to cows food. 2. Let the cow eat it. 3. Wait till nish, take a sample of air, see how much methane in that 4. Try this again with the other 9 cows 5. Try it again but by not adding garlic to the left 10 cows, test air 3 times a day. 6. See the difference, record and share

Experiment 7: washing detergent

Problem/ question Which laundry detergent works best? Materials

25 pieces of fabric (SAME COLOUR) Barbecue sauce Grass dirt Ketchup Orange juice 5 different kinds of laundry detergent

Method
1. Take one fabric put barbecue sauce on it 2. Do that to other 4 fabrics using, grass dirt, ketchup, orange juice, and coffee 3. Take the fabrics and hand wash them using ONE laundry detergent for all 5 fabrics that have the stuff on it 5. Rate the results from 1-4 (1 is BAD 4 is EXCELLENT) 6. Do this again BUT with the other laundry detergents 7. Tally the score about each result, See which detergent is the best from clearing off the stains