Scientific Method- How to use it

Question: You come up with a question about anything that can be tested. 
  
Research: Next, you do research on your question. Try to find information on the subject. See if others have asked and tried this, learn from them. You can research online, in books, and by asking people, preferably experts.   

Hypothesis: After doing your research, come up with a idea of what you think the result will be. Its good to do this after research, because you will come up with a more accurate hypothesis that is based on facts.

Plan: Make a plan to put your question and hypothesis to action. Get everything you will need for the experiment. Make a step-by-step process of what and how you'll test it.

Test: Now you start putting your plan to action. To have a more effective experiment, you'll want to have dependent, independent, and controlled variables. Although, each experimentation process is different, so it might not work for some, while it'll work for others. 

Organize: After the experiment, gather all of the data you got, and put it all together. It is easiest most of the time to put it into a graph. (Pie chart, Line graph, Bar graph)

Conclusion: Lastly, come up with a conclusion to your experiment. You'll want to state if your hypothesis was correct or not, what you would've done differently, any mistakes you made, and any new discoveries (if any).


*Remember- There isn't just one Scientific Method for all of the experiments, these are more like guidelines. But they are really effective for most kind of experiments.

Daniel Fahrenheit

 


-Daniel was born on May 24th, 1686.
-He is well known for inventing the alcohol thermometer and the mercury thermometer.
-He developed a temperature scale in which the definition of water freezing is at 32°, and it boils at 212°. This scale was named after him, Fahrenheit.

Thomas Edison

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-Thomas was born Feb. 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio.
-  Some of his accomplentments have been the, Phonograph, Transmitter for the telephone speaker, an Improved light bulb, and key elements of motion-picture apparatus, and many others.
-  He was the first investor-owned electric utility, (which later became the General Electric Corporation.).

Marie Curie

-Invented Radio Activity
-Won several awards for her discoveries
- Discovered  Polonium and Radium
- Born in Warsaw in modern-day Poland on November 7, 1867
- She modernized the Uranium rays invented by her husband Pier
- She came up with the word radioactivity to describe the phenomena.

Famous Discoveries Through the Centuries- Part 3

1928, Penicillin- Alexander Flemming
1936, Freely Programmable Computer- Konrad Zuse
1952, Bar Code- Bernard Silver
1953, DNA Model- James Watson & Francis Crick
1958, First Video Game- William Higinbotham
1969, Apollo on the Moon- Neil Armstrong, "Buzz" Aldrin
1971, First Arcade Game- Nolan Bushnell & Ted Dabney
1983, Taq Polymerase- Kary Mullis
1989, World Wide Web- Sir Tim Berners- Lee
1997, Dolly was Cloned- Ian Wilmut & Keith Cambell
2000, USB Drive- Trek Technology and IBM
2001, Temporary Stent Assembly- Hugh H. Trout III
2003, Human genome- J. Craig Venter
2004, Facebook- Marak Zuckerburg
2010, iPad- Steve Jobs

Famous Discoveries Through the Centuries- Part 2

1830, Geological Change- Charles Lyell
1837, Telegraphs- Samuel Morse
1859, Natural Selection- Charles Darwin
1862, Pasteurization- Louis Pasteur
1866, Genetic Theory- Gregor Mendel
1875, Telephone- Alexander Graham Bell
1882, Agar- Walter Hesse
1884, Images sent using wires- Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
1887, Winchester Rifle- John Browning
1891, Tesla Coil- Nikola Tesla
1898, Radio Phone- Reginald Fessenden
1898, Radio Activity- Marie Curie
1903, Airplane- Orville & Wilbur Wright
1903, Circuit Board- Albert Einstein
1904, Steam Locomotive- Richard Trevithick
1905, E=mc2- Albert Einstein
 

Famous Discoveries Through the Centuries - Part 1

Mid- 1st century AD, Gun powder - China
1440, Printing Press - Johannis Gutenburg
1543, Heliocentric universe - Nicolaus Copernious
1551, Stem Engine & Pressure Cooker - Denis Papin
1609, Galilean Telescope - Galileo Galilei
1665, Discovery of Cells - Robert Hooke
1674, First Microscope - Anton van Leeuwenhoek
1684, Calculus - Gottfried Leibniz & Isaac Newton
1687, Gravity & Laws of Motion - Isaac Newton
1724, Mercury Thermometer - Daniel Fahrenheit
1769, Automobile - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
1790, Aerosol - Erik Rotheim
1793, Cotton Gin - Eli Whitney
1796, Small Pox Vaccine - Edward Jenner
1807, Atomic Theory - John Dalton
1822, Photograph - Joseph Nicephore Niepce
1829, Aspirin - Arthur Eichengrun