Scientific Inquiry Overview
- Observations (both direct and indirect) or Background Research to learn about your topic
- Question-What are you going to research?
- Hypothesis (if/then statement with 2 supporting statements)
- Procedure/Experiment (getting data)
- Independent Variable-What are you testing?
- Dependent Variable-What variable changes due to the independent variable?
- Control-Used to compare your results to and is the "norm".
- Constants-Factors that are involved in the experiment that need to be kept the same.
- Analyzing Data
- Graphing (3 types of graphs-line, bar, pie)
- x-axis = independent variables and y-axis = dependent variables
- Conclusion-What is the answer to your question? Does it lead to another question?
- Graph Interpretation
- What would you do differently?