how to conduct experiment

1. Conducting
Experiment
Benjamen L. Banaag Jr.

2. Learning Competencies
Conduct a guided experiment.

3. In conducting a simple experiment it is
important to follow the different steps
of scientific method to get the correct
results.

4. Why conduct an experiment?
To explain changes
To look at cause and effect
Deduce a hypothesis from a theory
To examine relationships between
variables
Approve or disapprove hypotheses
Provide evidence

5. EXPERIMENT
A scientific procedure undertaken to make a
discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate
known fact.
Perform a scientific procedure, especially in a
laboratory, to determine something.

6. Can you still remember the
different steps of the
scientific method?

7. Steps of the Scientific Method
Asking question about the problem
the scientific method starts when you ask
question about something that you observe:
how, what, when, who, which, why or where.
Making correct or appropriate questions about
problems that you are interested is an important
step to guide you on what to focus that will help
you solve the problem.

8. Steps of the Scientific Method
Gathering data about the problem
rather than starting from scratch in putting together
a plan for answering your question, you want to be
savvy scientist using library or internet research help
you to find the best way to do things and ensure that
you don’t repeat mistakes from the past. Consulting
experts related to your problem is another way to
ensure that your investigation is on the right track.

9. Steps of the Scientific Method
Making hypothesis
recall that a hypothesis is an educated guess about how
things work. It is an attempt to answer your question with an
explanation that can be tested. A good hypothesis allows you to
then make a prediction. For example you may this sentence
pattern to make your hypothesis: “If_____ [I do this] __________,
then [this] __ will happen.” Framing a tentative answer to your
problem will give ideas on how you are going to proceed to test
your hypothesis.

10. Steps of the Scientific Method
Testing the hypothesis through an
experiment
conducting an experiment will test or prove
whether your hypothesis is accurate or not.
The data you gather from your experiment will
be your valid evidence to support your
hypothesis. If it proves otherwise, then new
discovery or another novel study or
investigation is worthy to be conducted.

11. Steps of the Scientific Method
What is important is that you conduct your
experiment fairly. That is, by making sure
that you change only one factor at a time
while keeping all other conditions the same.

12. Steps of the Scientific Method
Analysing data of experiment
involves reviewing gathered data from your observations
when you conducted the experiment on your problem at
hand. To ensure fairness and no biases will be
committed, you need to look at the results of your
experiment with a critical eye and be very objective in
reporting it.
Changing observed data to suit your hypothesis is a
mortal sin when you are conducting Science
investigation.

13. Steps of the Scientific Method
Making conclusion
 after analyzing your data and giving meaning to it, you are
now ready to summarize and evaluate results of your
experiment. In this step, you are giving the whole picture about
your findings and its importance. You are answering the ‘so
what’ part of your findings.
Conclusions are indicators of whether your
experiments conform to already known discoveries or offer new
ideas that could shed light to other confusing Science
phenomena.

14. Steps of the Scientific Method
Communicating result
 this is the part that gives true value to the investigation or study or
experiment you have conducted. Your study can be very useful when
results of your experiment are shared or known by others.
 Results of any Science investigation or experiment when communicated
are proactive way to contribute in the body of knowledge.
 This action may have profound effect in improving human lives especially
when experimental results are utilized Examples of communicating
findings or results of research can be done through Science congress,
publishing it in a journal or through advocacy campaigns or talk during
Science camps.