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!)

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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Hypothesis 

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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Data 

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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