What does the Scientific Method involve

Your science teacher may ask you to make a science project based on the scientific method. What does this involve? Essentially the scientific method is the basis of all scientific findings. It ensures that the facts that are documented are common and universal. How does it do that?

It is based on the following steps. First you make a hypothesis, this is like a guess. Let’s take a simple example like checking if something floats in water or does not. So if you make the hypothesis that a brick floats on water it will be wrong. How do you prove that the guess was wrong? You see that when you place the brick in the water it sinks.

This is called observation. Each time you place that brick or any other brick in water it will sink. The number of times you test this will give you your data. Once you have collected all the data you can make a conclusion. In this case the conclusion will be that a brick does not float on water, it sinks.

And that in a nutshell is the scientific method.  You make a hypothesis, then you make observations, collect data and then draw a conclusion based on the facts you have collected. If you are looking for ideas on projects that will involve using the scientific method, you will get plenty of them here. Just pick up the one which you find most interesting and get to work on your science project.