Experimental Design

          Experimental Design is a fancy way of saying "writing, conducting, and analyzing an experiment". There are a few very important things you need to remember when writing an experiment, like forming a good testable question.

          When you write a testable question, you need to make sure it has enough details to perform the experiment. It needs to have the type of data you are collecting and the two different variables. Here is a bad example and a good example of testable questions:

Will the salt stick to the balloon?

Which staticy balloon will attract more salt, the big one or the small one?

           The good example has the type of data ["amount"= quantitative], and the two variables [Independent: size of balloon; Dependent: amount of salt]. The Independent Variable is what you change and the Dependent variable is what is measured in any experiment. Try writing your own testable question!

Scientific Processes

          Over the past few weeks, I have been working on Scientific Processes. I have gotten better at the subject because I have been paying close attention in class and I have been doing homework successfully and studying for tests. Something I learned about myself is that if I work hard and study well, I will do great on tests and homework. When people look at my work, I want them to think, "Wow! This person put a lot of time and effort into making this look nice and organized". Something I might want to really focus and improve on is making sure that my notes are neat, organized, and easily understandable.

     Here is a picture of some Scientific Processes. Remember that there is more than 1 type of process, some of which can be easily understood or very confusing, and hard to understand.