Hypothesis

Skills and Processes

Maryland Science Content Standard

• Students will be able to give reasons for the importance of waiting until an investigation has been repeated many times before accepting the results as correct.

Objective

• Students will analyze changes of the independent and dependent variables in order to develop a hypothesis.

Notebook

• Title:Hypothesis

• Date: 04/19/23

• Glue the two papers titled “Hypothesis…More Than a Guess”

The Assignment

• Read the beginning paragraph on your assignment

• Complete the first two questions.• Read the article “Moving On Up” to

research the topic of pelican population in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

• Using the independent and dependent variables, develop a hypothesis for each scenario

Prove to me you understand!!

• A pelican noticed a school of fish swimming below. If the pelican dove down slowly, the fish swam away before he could catch any. If the pelican dove at full-speed, it could scoop up almost three gallons of water and fish. Write a hypothesis describing the feeding dive of pelicans.– Independent Variable:– Dependent Variable:

– Hypothesis: