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1. Summarize the steps of the scientific method. What is the purpose of the control in an experiment? The variable?
2. Conduct an internet search and locate a scientific study. Identify the steps of the scientific method, as well as recognize which steps may have been skipped. Place your link to this site in your answer.
3. Design a scientific experiment, complete with all of the steps of the scientific method. It doesn't have to be complicated. It could be a cooking experiment, a gardening/growing experiment, etc. Make certain you have a strong hypothesis that can be tested.
4. Think about the events of the week in your life. Identify a situation in which the steps of the scientific method apply. Explain each step.
5. Read the scenarios below. For each of the scenarios, identify the following (you should identify the 3 for EACH of the scenarios):
Control Group Independent Variable Dependent Variable
A. John thinks that a special juice will increase the productivity of workers. He creates two groups of 50 workers each and assigns each group the same task (in this case, they're supposed to staple a set of papers). Group A is given the special juice to drink while they work. Group B is not given the special juice. After an hour, John counts how many stacks of papers each group has made. Group A made 1,587 stacks, Group B made 2,113 stacks.
B. Candy notices that her shower is covered in a strange green slime. Her friend Belinda tells her that coconut juice will get rid of the green slime. Candy decides to check this out by spraying half of the shower with coconut juice. She sprays the other half of the shower with water. After 3 days of "treatment" there is no change in the appearance of the green slime on either side of the shower.
C. Elisa is working on a science project. Her task is to answer the question: "Does Grow Long (which is a commercial hair product) affect the speed of hair growth?" Her family is willing to volunteer for the experiment.