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What do scientists do?

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Essential Question: 

How do scientists conduct scientific research

or solve scientific problems to impact the future?


Be a scientist. Follow the "scientific method" to answer a question. Scientists look for the truth by predicting what will happen, and then conducting an experiment to accept or reject the prediction [hypothesis].

What do scientists do?

How does a scientist work?

What is the scientific method?

Question: Decide on a question to which you want an answer, to find the truth of the concept.

Research: Research what is already known about the idea to decide on your hypothesis.

Experiment: Follow the process of experimentation to discover the truth of your hypothesis.

For an experiment to be valid, all (controlled) variables must be kept the same whenever possible, except for the manipulated (independent) variable being tested and the responding (dependent) variable being measured and recorded. If a variable cannot be controlled, it must be reported and accounted for.



Report any variables not controlled and explain how they might affect results.

Document your process in a lab report:

Lab Report (Click for template)

1. Research Topic:
2. Background Research:
3. Research Question:
4. Hypothesis:
5. Materials:
6. Variables
Independent / Manipulated:
Dependent / Responding:
Others that may affect results:
7. Procedures:
8. Data Tables:
9. Observations
10. Results:
11. Conclusions
12: Summary of Findings:


Write your abstract.


Key Ideas and Details:


Craft and Structure:


Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:


Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:



Getting Started

Experience Blog

Respond to questions on your blog to share what your are doing, learning, thinking, feeling?


Create a glossary of your science topic terms

Click: Lab Report Documentation

This is your documentation of your experiment -- all your lab notes, research, data collection, observations. After your experiment, after you have written your conclusions, then you create your  lab abstract.


Click: Final Summary Lab abstract directions and [click] template.
An abstract is a summary of the most important information in your lab report. It is the part that scientists send out to others and write up in science newsletters and journals.

Materials Purchase List

Add your materials to the purchase list.

Work Links


Sample Questions for your hypothesis.

Checklist  [ in docs ]

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Practice Lab Reports
Lab Reports are all the notes, background research, experiment information in one document

Lab Report: Sixth Grade  Fifth Grade

Experiment [gravity] Lab Report  and Data