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Use the video on the right to help you answer these questions:
- Why do scientists do experiments?
- After watching the video, what was the experiment about?
- The researchers were comparing two things to each other. What were the two things?
- What were the results of the experiment?
- How could scientists use the information learned from this experiment? What might it help us to explain about human behavior?
Notes / READING RESOURCES
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Labs
Labs
Penny Lab
Penny Lab
Watch the video below to see an example of the type of data that was collected in the lab and how it was performed. Use the data on the right to record data for other testing liquids and to finish the analysis in your lab work.
Surface Tension of a Penny Lab Video.movVIDEOS
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
- Scientific Method - a process that is used to find answers to questions about the world around us
- hypothesis - an educated guess based on observations and your knowledge of the topic
- data - information gathered during an experiment
- variable - something that can change in an experiment
- independent variable - The factor (thing) that is intentionally changed
- dependent variable - The factor (thing) that changes as a result of the independent variable
- controlled variable - the factors (things) that are not changed in the experiment. It is kept intentionally the same
- control group - the thing in an experiment that does not receive treatment and is then used to compare and measure how the other tested subjects do when exposed by the independent variable
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