Environmental Science Scientific Method

Learn what has been done

Resources include books, journals, magazines, interview, internet and encyclopedias 

Never copy or plagiarize, always give share where you found the information 

also called an educated guess

It's what you think will happen in your experiment

A hypothesis is always based on your research and observations

Sometimes your experiments will prove your hypothesis wrong 

This is where you create an experiment or test

The experiment test to see if your hypothesis is correct or wrong.

The steps must be numbered and put in a list.

Observations: record what happens

Try the experiment many times (repetition)

Inferring: why do you think something happened based on what you observed

Independent Variable: the part of the experiment you change (i change)

Dependent Variable: the part of the experiment that changes (does change)

Control: what you compare the results to

Sample Size: make sure you have a large sample size 

the information you gather from your experiment

Quantitative Data: charts, tables, graphs 

Qualitative Data:  illustrations and photographs

This is the summary of your results

Is your hpothesis correct or wrong?

Identify any errors with the experiment

What could you do to make the experiment better?