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Pretest
What is science?What is the difference between a
hypothesis, a theory, and a law?What are the steps of the scientific
method?What is a control group, an independent
variable, and a dependent variable?
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What is Science?
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What is Science?
Asking questionsMaking observationsForming hypothesisTesting hypotheses
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What is the difference between a hypothesis, a theory, and a law?
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hypothesis
An explanation for an observation an “educated” guessmust be testable!!!
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theory
A hypothesis which has been tested numerous times
and found to be correct (can explain observations)
but not yet “proven”
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law
Laws are theories which have been extensively tested
and have NEVER BEEN DISPROVENexample: law of gravity
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What are the steps in the Scientific Method?
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The Scientific Method
The Problem The Procedure The Data The Conclusion
Ask a Question
Form a TESTABLE hypothesis
Test the hypothesis with an experiment
Collect data
Assemble into charts
Accept or reject hypothesis
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Example of the Scientific Method
Suppose you want to see if playing music makes a bean plant grow taller.
What would your hypothesis be?
Design an experiment to test your hypothesis. Say that you have 50 seedlings to start with.
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Playing Music Makes Bean Plants Grow Taller
• Play music for all 50 seedlings.
• Measure: How high do the plants grow?
• Results: The plants grew an average of 10 inches.
• What is the problem with this experiment?
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Playing Music Makes Bean Plants Grow Taller
Group 1: No music CONTROL GROUP
Group 2: Music
Measure: How high do the plants grow?
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Variables
Group 1: No music CONTROL GROUPGroup 2: Music for 1 hour a dayGroup 3: Music for 2 hours a day
How would you plot your results? What TWO things are changing?
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What are the two variables?
How much music was played?
How tall did the plants grow?
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Variables
How much music was played? Independent variable (manipulated)
How tall did the plants grow? Dependent variable (responding)
The dependent variable DEPENDS on the independent variable.
How tall the plants are DEPENDS on how much music is played.
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What is wrong with this experiment?
You decide to see if taking vitamin “Q” will make your pet rats go through a maze faster. You feed one group of rats vitamin “Q” and give them extra food and water. You give the rest of your rats no vitamin, and only normal amounts of food and water.
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CARDINAL RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only test ONE variable at a time!!!!!!!
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What is wrong with this experiment?
You have two rats. You give one vitamin “Q” and the other gets no vitamin.
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Sample size is too small.
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Observations and Inferences
You go the movies one afternoon. When you come out of the theater, you notice that the sidewalk is wet. “It must have rained,” you think to your self.
What did you OBSERVE?What did you INFER?
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Observation: the sidewalk is wet Information gathered using one or more of
your senses
Inference: it rainedYour INTERPRETATION of what you
observed