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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Sampling Arthropod Diversity of a Schoolyard
Students will practice the steps in the scientific method in this activity where they design and carry out an investigation into arthropods in the schoolyard.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Using Egg Drop Activity to Promote Critical Thinking and Analysis Skills
In this multi-lesson hands-on inquiry activity, students will develop their critical thinking skills by designing and constructing an apparatus that will permit an egg to survive a nine foot fall. Given limited materials, they will...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Science Experiments
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduction to scientific experiments.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Oceanography as Science
Students study research and experimental design and how the scientific method contributes to ocean research and our understanding of marine science.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Sugar Spill!
In this activity, students act as environmental engineers involved with the clean up of a toxic spill. Using bioremediation as the process, students select which bacteria they will use to eat up the pollutant spilled. Students learn how...
Other
Gphsf: Basic Project Timeline
This resource is a short piece, part of a larger page, on conducting your experiment. It contains a lot of good advice.