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.
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