Understanding Experiments: The Scientific Method
A Grade 5 science worksheet to introduce students to the scientific method and experimental design.
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Understanding Experiments: The Scientific Method
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will test your understanding of the scientific method and how to design simple experiments.
1. The first step of the scientific method is to ask a .
2. A is an educated guess about the answer to your question.
3. Scientists experiments to test their hypotheses.
4. The information you gather during an experiment is called .
1. Which of these is NOT a step in the scientific method?
Form a hypothesis
Watch TV
Collect data
Draw conclusions
2. What is the purpose of an experiment?
To prove your hypothesis is always right
To test your hypothesis
To make a mess
To avoid thinking
1. It is important to change many things at once in an experiment.
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False
1. Imagine you want to find out if plants grow taller with more sunlight. What would be your hypothesis?
2. What kind of data would you collect in the plant experiment?
Number the steps of the scientific method in the correct order (1-5):
Analyze data
Form a hypothesis
Ask a question
Draw conclusions
Conduct an experiment