terms related to experimentation
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Observation → Question → Hypothesis →Test Hypothesis → EXPERIMENT!
John watches his grandmother bake bread. He asks her what makes the bread rise.
She explains that yeast releases a gas as it feeds on sugar.
Terms Related to Experimentation
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Question
John wonders if the amount of sugar used in the recipe will affect the size of the bread loaf?
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Do a Bit of Research
John researches the areas of baking and
fermentation and tries to come up with a way to test his question.
He keeps all of his information on this topic in a journal.
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Formulate a Hypothesis
Finally, he comes up with a hypothesis.
“If more sugar is added, then the bread
will rise higher.”
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Hypothesis
The hypothesis is an informed, tentative prediction about the
relationship between the independent and dependent
variables.
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Independent Variable
The independent, or manipulated variable, is a factor that’s intentionally varied by the
experimenter.
John is going to use 25g., 50g., 100g., 250g., 500g. of sugar in
his experiment.
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Dependent Variable
The dependent, or responding variable, is the factor that is
expected to change as a result of changes made in the independent variable (i.e. what’s changed ON PURPOSE by the experimenter)
In this case, it would be the size of the loaf of bread.
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Control Group
In a scientific experiment, the control group is the group that
serves as the standard of comparison.
The control group may be a “no treatment" or an “experimenter
selected” group.
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Control Group
The control group is exposed to the same conditions as the
experimental group, except for the variable being tested.
All experiments should have a control group.
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Control Group
Because his grandmother always used 50g. of sugar in her recipe, John is going to
use that amount in his control group.
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Constants (controlled Variables)
John needs to keep all other factors the same so that any observed changes in the bread can be attributed to the variation in the amount of sugar.
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Can you think of some constants for this experiment?
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Constants
They might include:
Other ingredients to the bread recipe, oven used, rise time, brand of ingredients, cooking time, type of pan used, air temperature and humidity where the bread was rising, oven temperature, age of the yeast…
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Experiment
John makes a list of all the materials he’ll need and writes out his procedurefor his experiment in his journal.
John is going to run his experiment 3 times (trials).
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Collecting Data in an Organized Way is Vital to a Good Experiment
John comes up with a table he can use to record his data. He then gets all his materials together and carries out his experiment.
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Size of Baked Bread (LxWxH) cm3
Amt. of
Sugar (g.)1 2 3 Average
Size (cm3)
25 768 744 761 758
50 1296 1188 1296 1260
100 1188 1080 1080 1116
250 672 576 588 612
500 432 504 360 432
Size of Bread Loaf (cm3)
Trials
Control group
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Collect and Analyze Results
John examines his data and notices that his control
worked the best in this experiment, but
not significantly better than 100 g of
sugar.
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Conclusion
John rejects his original hypothesis, but decides perhaps
he’s on the right track. He writes a new hypothesis…
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Conclusion
An amount of sugar between 50g and
100g will produce an optimal bread size.
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Experiment
Once again, John gathers his materials and carries out his
experiment.
Here are the results.
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Size of Baked Bread (LxWxH) cm3
Amt. of
Sugar (g.)1 2 3 Average
Size (cm3)
50 1296 1440 1296 1344
60 1404 1296 1440 1380
70 1638 1638 1560 1612
80 1404 1296 1296 1332
90 1080 1200 972 1084
Size of Bread Loaf (cm3)
Trials
Control group
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Conclusion
John finds that 70g. of sugar produces the
largest loaf.
His hypothesis is supported.
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Communicate the Results
John tells his grandmother about his findings and prepares to present his project
in Science class.