How Do You Design A Scientific Experiment?
The idea of a scientific experiment is to come up with a hypothesis based on a series of observations, then to use research to try to prove or disprove your hypothesis. Depending on the hypothesis, you will need to use a variety of types of research to decide how to set up an experiment that will test your hypothesis. Make observations. In order to set up a scientific experiment, you will need to make observations about a particular phenomenon that you wish to investigate further. For example, you notice that birds eat more from a feeder in the winter than in the summer. Make a hypothesis. A hypothesis is an educated or logical guess about how or why something occurs. For example, using the bird feeder scenario again, you may make a hypothesis that would say something to the effect of: “Cold temperatures make birds eat more.” Design and perform an experiment. You want to create an experiment that would test your hypothesis and the end result would be that the evidence from your experim
