Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Ji Tt: Scientific Method
Students learn about the scientific method by planning an experiment to test a hypothesis. Their hypothesis should be based on a common pseudo-science or alternative health treatment topic. Students will compare their designs with other...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Applying the Scientific Method
Learn how to use the steps of the scientific method to carry out a scientific investigation.
REMC Association of Michigan
Remc Association of Michigan: 21 Things4 Students: 15. Design Thinking
Design Thinking is a process for designing something to solve a problem. It shares a lot of similarities to the Engineering Design Process you might learn in a STEM class and the Scientific Method you learn in science. However, it tends...
University of Washington
Washington U: Model for Conducting Scientific Research
This page outlines the scientific method, step by step.
Songs for Teaching
Songs for Teaching: Scientific Method Blues
This lesson plan introduces the scientific method to your students through song. Students will learn the steps of the scientific method through this great song written by Kathleen Carroll. Click on the link and play it for your whole class.
BioMan Biology
Bio Man Biology: Inky the Squid and the Treasures of the Scientific Method!
Review your understanding of the scientific method as you play this underwater game. Collect clues in bottles, pearls, and answer questions. There are three levels of difficulty to choose from.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Design a Paper Car: Exploring the Scientific Method
An engineering design project used to help young scholars practice teamwork and to give them an opportunity to experience engineering practices, such as teamwork and problem-solving.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Designing and Carrying Out Your Very Own Animal Behavior Experiment
Students review the process of science and then use the scientific process to design and carry out an experiment using pill bugs.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Better by Design
The purpose of this activity is to use a scientific method to determine the effect of control surfaces on a paper glider. The students will construct a paper airplane/glider and test its performance to determine the base characteristics...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Paper Helicopters: Variables and Experimental Design
Introduce scientific design and variables through this simple lesson of building paper helicopters. Activity includes a link to a video on how to make helicopters.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Heave Ho!
Students will discover the scientific basis for the use of inclined planes. They will explore, using a spring scale, a bag of rocks and an inclined plane, how dragging objects up a slope is easier than lifting them straight up into the...
Fundación Cientec
Cientec: El Metodo Cientfico
A very nicely designed website that introduces the scientific method and, upon clicking on each process, provides more detailed information.
University of Arizona
Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung Development Activity
An interactive activity designed for you understand the scientific method and how to analyze your data. A step-by-step and personalized experiment geared toward the topic of toxicology.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Students as Scientists
This curricular unit contains two lessons that let students actually do the work of scientists as they design their own experiments to answer questions they generate. In the first lesson and its associated activity, students conduct a...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Science Experiments
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the scientific experimental design.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Design an Experiment Testable on 50 People Dealing With Your 5 Senses
Pupils design an investigation about one of the five senses using the process of the scientific method.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Beyond the Earth Part Ii
A continuation of Beyond the Earth Part I. As part of a unit on the solar system, students will choose a component of the solar system to research. Students may use a variety of resources such as the Internet, books, and reference...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Beyond Science?: Healing Touch
Use the scientific method to investigate the claims of "energy field" therapists. Design an investigation to study the claims of biomagnetic therapy.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Worm Investigation to Explore Experimental Design
For this lesson, middle schoolers learn about how to design an experiment, factor in other potential effects, take observations, and record their findings. The experiment is done using worms in a lab setting.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Rescue Mission, Design Experiment
Design and build a hook that can be used to grab and lift canisters floating in water. Test the design and make revisions as needed.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: The Frontiers Decade: Decade in Space
Investigate the invention of the Pathfinder rover's landing apparatus by designing, constructing and testing an original model of a bouncing lander. Compete to see which landers work best to keep the cargo from breaking.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese Collaborative Projects: International Boiling Point Project
An Internet project designed to determine the greatest influence on the boiling point. After reading the project instructions and performing the experiment, submit your data and compare your results to other classes from around the world.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Designing an Experiment to Test the Rate of Photosynthesis
Using spinach leaf disks, students measure the rate at which the photosynthesis process occurs. Students speculate on further investigations that could be done and discuss how the rate at which photosynthesis occurs has vast implications...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Buoyancy, Density, and Fluid Principles: Make Mini Submarine
In this lab, students will use the scientific method to design an experiment that explains how/why a submarine floats and sinks.