The scientific process
- Created by: Molly Hirst
- Created on: 19-04-13 23:13
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- The Scientific Process.
- Science tries to explain how and why thing happen
- 1.Ask a question, make an observation and ask how or why it happens.
- 2. Suggest an answer, or part of an answer, forming a theory.
- 3. Make a prediction or hypothesis.
- 4. Carry out a test to provide evidence.
- A theory is only scientific if it can be tested!
- The results are published. They need to let others know about their work.
- 1. Scientific reports are similar to lab write-ups.
- 2. The report is sent out to peers.
- 3. Peer review can't guarantee the science is right.
- 4. Sometimes mistakes are made and flawed work is published.
- Other scientists read the published theories and results and try to test the theory themselves.
- Repeating the exact same experiment.
- Using the theory to make new predictions.
- 1. If all the experiments in all the world support it, then the theory is know as a scientific 'fact'.
- 2. Scientific breakthroughs will provide new ways to question and test the theory.
- Scientists need evidence to back up their theories. They get this by carrying out experiments.
- Science tries to explain how and why thing happen
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