8/18 - The Scientific Method

Handouts: One on Airplane design

Lecture about the scientific method. Five steps:
1. Identify the problem
2. Gather Information
3. Form a hypothesis
4. Experiment
5. Results and conclusions

Also learned about graphing properly, independent and dependent variables, and where they go on a graph.

Then we talked about the lab that we are doing tomorrow on the scientific method. Today, the students identified the problem. Homework for tonight is to gather information…

Tomorrow we will be forming a hypothesis and doing the experiment. The class with the best results gets 5 bonus points. The team with the best results gets 10 bonus points on the first test.