“Doing” Science!

4th Grade Science

Bettina Oesch

Table of Contents

O What are Testable

Questions?

O How Can We Find

Answers?

O Scientific Method

O Vocabulary Words

Researchable Questions:

Usually begin with

“Why…?”

Example: Why do

planaria have two eyes?

How Can We Find Answers?What are some ways we

can find the answers to

our questions?Ask

Somebody

The Scientific Method…A. Observe and ask

questions

O Make a testable

question

B. Design a way you could

possibly test your

question.

C. Make a Hypothesis, or a

guess of what you think

will happen in your

experiment

D. List the materials you will

use in your experiment.

E. Explain the procedure, or

the step-be-step process of

your experiment.

F. State the controlled

variable

G. List the independent

variables

H. Conduct the Experiment

I. Make Close Observations

J. Measure and Collect all Data

K. Analyze the Data

Draw your

Conclusion….

L. State if your

Hypothesis was

correct or incorrect

M. What did you learn

from your

experiment?

N. Why do you think

that happened?

Ask “So What?”

How do your findings relate to you?

To me?

The world?