Experimental Design Worksheet
A Grade 6 science worksheet focusing on the principles of experimental design, including independent, dependent, and controlled variables, and formulating hypotheses.
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Experimental Design Worksheet
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will test your understanding of experimental design.
1. Which of the following is the first step in designing an experiment?
Collecting data
Formulating a hypothesis
Drawing conclusions
Identifying variables
2. In an experiment, the variable that is changed by the scientist is called the:
Dependent variable
Controlled variable
Independent variable
Constant variable
3. A scientific guess or prediction about the outcome of an experiment is called a .
4. The variable that is measured or observed in an experiment is the variable.
5. Factors that are kept the same throughout an experiment are known as variables.
6. It is important to change multiple variables at once in an experiment to see what happens.
True
False
7. A control group is used to show that the independent variable is indeed causing the observed effect.
True
False
8. Imagine you want to test if different types of fertilizer affect plant growth. Describe what your independent, dependent, and controlled variables would be.