Scientific Method

Scientific Method

Tracye Braden

UMA

Dean Whitener

SC-1040

07/02/2012

The Scientific Method Essay

The scientists has to observe the plant as well as gathering measurable evidence, this is the collection of data through observation, experimentation, and formulation and the testing of a hypothesis.

Scientist makes the presumption that everything in nature is orderly, but at the same time it can be understood and explained by the general laws.

Using scientific methods of observation, hypothesis, and experimentation, you will discover these laws through deductive and inductive methods.

Steps of the scientific method

1. Ask Questions.

2. Gather information and resources through observation.

3. Form a hypothesis.

4. Perform one or more experiments and collect and sort data.

5. Analyze the data

6. Interpret the data and make conclusions that point to a hypothesis.

7. Formulate a final or finished hypothesis.

Examples of the scientific method

Problem: Missing purse

Data: I went to the post office to check my mail and from the post office to the market to buy some grocery.

I didn’t realize my purse was gone until I got home and reached in the back seat for it.

Hypothesis: My first hypothesis was to trace my footsteps, so I started looking around my house but I didn’t find my purse.

My second hypothesis was that I go back to the post office so I went back and asked if anyone had seen my purse but nobody had seen it.

My third and last hypothesis was to go back to the market and see if anyone had seen my purse and nobody there had seen my purse either.

But as I was...