Depending on who you talk to, the Scientific Method can consists of five to eight parts. The method that we use in our homeschool is one I grabbed from somewhere on the net last year. (Sorry, but I don�t remember where. I have a bad habit of grabbing what I need and not thinking to note where I found it.)
1. Question: Make observations and develop your question. The question should be about what you are interested in learning or what you want to know.
2. Hypothesis: State your hypothesis. Your hypothesis is your educated guess about what you think will happen.
3. Method: The method is the process or steps of your experiment. This should be very detailed and include materials needed.
4. Results: The results are the facts or data that you collect from your experiment.
5. Conclusion: In the conclusion, you explain why you think the experiment happened the way it did. Include whether the results supported your hypothesis or not.
I made a �lab sheets� for my kids. Anytime we do a science project, we each grab a lab sheet and follow the scientific method.
Scientific Method Lab Sheet
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