Thursday, March 8, 2012

Science: How does the scientific method work?

Scientists go in great into great detail when going through the scientific method to come up with a theory.  Elementary students just need the basics as to how the scientific method works.  They don't need a thousand steps that I think sometimes teachers make their students learn.  It is simple really, observe, hypothesise, experiment, observe your results, and then come up with a conclusion.  Sure scientist may have to revise their hypothesis and test again or add a variable to the experiment to see if they get different results, but I think for the elementary student, this video show enough steps to getting them started.

Subject:  Scientific Inquiry
Grade Level:  3-7


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