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Design Your Own Experiment
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Space is an infinite frontier sparsely filled with objects. Comets, stars, meteors, asteroids, moons, and planets are just a few of the objects visible in space. Before you begin making observations or experimenting, ask yourself questions. What is an asteroid? What is the difference between a meteor and a meteorite?
Check the For More Information section and talk with your science teacher or school or community media specialist to start gathering information on star questions that interest you.
Steps in the Scientific Method
To do an original experiment, you need to plan carefully and think things through. Otherwise, you might not be sure what question you are answering, what you are or should be measuring, or what your findings prove or disprove.
Here are the steps in designing an experiment:
- State the...
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