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scott-locklear
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What are the basic steps of the scientific method?

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Posted by scott-locklear on Thursday April 3, 2008 at 3:10 PM and tagged with science, scientific method.

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  1. amethystrose Teacher
    High School - 9th Grade

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    The guys on Myth Busters follow this method all the time!  The Steps are as follows:

    1.  Ask a question.  What is it you want to know?  What do you hope to discover?

    2.  Do background research.  Find out as much as you can about your topic from a variety of sources.  Don't trust one source exclusively.

    3.  Construct of hypothesis.  Based on what you've discovered in your research, what preliminary conclusions can you come to?

    4.  Conduct an experiment to test your hypothesis.  Do the results of the experiment concur with what you supposed would happen?

    5.  Analyze your data and draw a conclusion.  Does the experiment support your original hypothesis, or has the theory been "busted".

    6.  Communicate your results to others.

    Watch Myth Busters to see this in action!

    Sources:
    http://biology.clc.uc.edu/Courses/bio104/sci_meth.htm
    http://school.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/myth-busters/
    http://www.sciencebuddies.org/mentoring/project_scientifi...

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    Posted by amethystrose on Saturday April 5, 2008 at 6:35 AM


  2. r0sered17 Student
    High School - 12th Grade

    The headings for each step would be as follows:

    1-Observation

    2-Hypothesis

    3-Test

    4-Result

    5-Conclusion

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    Posted by r0sered17 on Tuesday January 20, 2009 at 9:30 AM