1. Bellringer
Imagine that you are an Earth scientist and can travel wherever you want to on Earth. Describe Earth’s aspects or features that you would like to study. Explain where you would go and what you would do.

2. Draw a scientist at work.

3. Scientific Method

4. Scientific Method
The scientific method is a process that scientists use to answer questions or solve problems

5. Steps in the Scientific Method
Observation/Ask a question
Gather information
Hypothesis
Experiment
Analyze Data
Conclusion
Share results

6. Observations Gathered through your senses
A scientist notices something in their natural world

7. Hypothesis
A hypothesis is a suggested solution to the problem, educated guess.
Must be testable
Sometimes written as If…Then… statements
Predicts an outcome

8. A procedure to test the hypothesis.
Experiment
A procedure to test the hypothesis.

9. Data Data are pieces of information collected during the experiment
Should be qualitative or quantitative.

10. Data
Must be organized
Data is organized into charts, tables, or graphs

11. Conclusion
Conclusion summarizes the experiment and results

12. Share Resluts
Share results by posting them on the internet, writing journal, or give a talk.

13. Bellringer 8-12
1. What step comes after asking a question in the scientific method?
2. What is a conclusion?
3. What is a hypothesis?
4. What is the last step of the scientific method?

14. Review
In your groups, see if you can come up with a sentence to help you remember the steps to the scientific method
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15. Solving a Problem 1)Identify a Problem/ask a question
2) Gather information about the problem
3) Form a Hypothesis about the problem (if…then…)
4) Design an Experiment to test the hypothesis
5) Analyze Data
6) Form a Conclusion
7) Share Results to public

16. Ask a Question
Make an observation by using you 5 senses to help you ask a question

17. Research
Gather information about your question

18. Hypothesis
Make an educated guess about what you think will happen in the experiment

19. Experiment
Follow a procedure and do your experiment

20. Analyze Data
Look closely at the information gather during the experiment to understand it.

21. Conclusion
Write a paragraph that tells what happened in the experiment and the results. Then SHARE it.