Thursday, September 5, 2013

Scientific Methods Resources

The first one is a person setting up a simple experiment with various things (variables) controlled and an independent variable. He says a couple of things incorrectly. First he makes it sound like the cup of salt water is the independent variable. He does then say it correctly as whether or not it has salt. He also says that the result is the dependent variable. However, it is more accurate to say that what is measured in the outcome is the dependent variable. You should be able to identify the variables before actually conducting the experiment.
  The second one is part 2 of the 1st one. Good videos on scientific method. The first has the most information. Others might be a song that is more your style. If this is your kind of thing, make your own video and share it with us!
This is also a good video, called The Variable Song.

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Here are a couple of online quizzes that can be good practice!
http://www.quia.com/quiz/162310.html?AP_rand=1042213517

http://www.quia.com/pop/184568.html
I did find one mistake on the independent variable on this one.