The Scientific Method Ashley Burrell SCI/230 07/28/2013 Dawn Gleason The Scientific Method This paper seeks to explain what the scientific method is and exactly how it is used or can be used on an everyday basis. The scientific method is a method often used to help a person or a group logically or rationally draw a conclusions about an in particular subject or topic. The scientific method is not just used by scientists, but is also used by many others such as historians, criminal investigators
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The Scientific Method Justin Lancaster SC300-24 The Scientific Method Throughout our lives, we face numerous challenges, obstacles and difficult decisions that require the use of higher-level thinking. When we process the different possibilities and scenarios in our mind, subconsciously we are using the scientific method to problem solve. This basic concept is developed from an early stage in our lives and while it is practiced often in the widespread experiments of science, it is a valuable
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The Scientific Method Paper The Scientific Method is a process that I have always struggled with. It is a process that assists you in organizing your information. It also is useful in the fact that you are able to keep all of your steps in order. The steps that are in the Scientific Method are Observation and Questioning, Hypothesis, Testing, Results, Explanation, and New Question. The Observation and Questioning step is very important. In this step we look at what we want to do an experiment
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The Scientific Method Holly Regan HSM/270 May 25, 2014 Santosha Oliver The Scientific Method An experiment was done on the production of more tomato plants using the steps in the scientific method as follows: 1)Observation: That over the past couple years there had been a decline in tomato production compared to the initial first two years due to cooler temperatures and drier season. 2) Question: Why is there such an increased decline of tomato plants production the last two years compared
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I used the scientific method to determine how to solve a car problem. I picked the car instead of the tomatoes because I am more familiar with cars and I do not like tomatoes. I was able to experiment before I was able to find out the correct problem. I am generally good with cars and know to check the basics problems that can occur with a car. In this activity the first thing that I thought about was the condition of the battery of the car. I was able to choose that and found out that the battery
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The scientific method is used to logically solve problems in many areas of life. The process involves making an observation, questioning that observation, deriving a hypothesis, producing a prediction, testing and collecting data and drawing a final conclusion. To follow the steps of the scientific method within an experiment one must first start with an observation. If a plant is placed near a window, it tends to lean towards the glass. A question that one might draw from this incident could
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Scientific Method The Scientific Method is a system devised to allow scientists to gain insight, or knowledge, on a wide range of questions about one’s behavior and other points of interest. The first step in this process is to identify a question that deserves an explanation or answer to. For example, a good indentifying question that one could use would be why did the chicken cross the road? This is a specific behavior that can be addressed and quantified. Once the individual has the question
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counseling methods Prompt E: Psychologists use the scientific method to conduct their research. The scientific method is a standardized way of making observations, gathering data, forming theories, testing predictions, and interpreting results. The general process of the scientific method goes as followed: Creating a hypothesis, executing an experiment, evaluating data, refining a theory, and developing a theory. The observations the researcher has made using the scientific method of thing is
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The Scientific Method Holly Regan HSM/270 May 25, 2014 Santosha Oliver The Scientific Method An experiment was done on the production of more tomato plants using the steps in the scientific method as follows: 1)Observation: That over the past couple years there had been a decline in tomato production compared to the initial first two years due to cooler temperatures and drier season. 2) Question: Why is there such an increased decline of tomato plants production the last two years compared
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The Scientific Method: To help you understand the HOMER SIMPSON WORKSHEET, remember the following things: 1) Hypothesis: Your “IF-Then” statement. 2) Independent Variable: This is the variable that the scientist controls or changes – WHAT THE SCIENTIST DOES. Ask yourself, “What are you (the scientist) doing or changing in this experiment?” 3) Dependent Variable: This is the variable that is RESPONDING to what the scientist did (the independent variable). Ask yourself, “What are you trying
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