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Grade 7-QI-mod1 - DESCRIBE-THE-SCIENTIFIC-METHOD
Grade 7-QI-mod1 - DESCRIBE-THE-SCIENTIFIC-METHOD
Science
Quarter 1 – Module 1:
Scientific Method
Science – Grade 7
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Quarter 1 – Module 1: Scientific Method
First Edition, 2020
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What I Need to Know
This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you
master the skills in Scientific Method. The scope of this module permits it to be
used in many different learning situations. The language used recognizes the
diverse vocabulary level of students. The feature of this module includes different
tasks that are based on the competency aligned in the MELC for Science.
You will study the following concepts in this module:
Components of Scientific investigation;
Formulating a Research Problem and Hypothesis
Planning the Investigation, Experimentation and Data Analysis
Making Conclusions and Recommendations
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What I Know
A. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a separate
sheet of paper.
1. In what step of the Scientific Method do you ask a question?
a. Conclusion
b. Problem
c. Hypothesis
d. Information
2. In what step of the Scientific Method do you go to the library or ask
an expert?
a. Conclusion
b. Hypothesis
c. Problem
d. Information
3. Which step of the scientific method comes immediately after
making observations and asking a question?
a. forming a hypothesis
b. analyzing data
c. Data
d. Experiment
4. The actual answer to the problem.
a. Hypothesis
b. Data
c. Conclusion
d. Information
5. The variable that you change in the experiment. Also called the
manipulated variable.
a. Controlled
b. Dependent
c. Independent
d. Responding
6. How is a hypothesis tested?
a. by using the hypothesis to make predictions about a system.
b. by comparing observations in nature with predictions
c. by conducting an experiment and looking for results
d. All of the above
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7. Which of the following statements would be true of the scientific
method?
a. People structure their lives on the principle of scientific method.
b. The scientific method is a continuous process by which people learn
about his world.
c. Scientists report the experimental results, but not the experimental
design.
d. When the results of the experiment do not fit the hypothesis, a
scientist may discard the results and stop the experiment.
8. Suppose your mother sent you to the market to buy fruits and
vegetables.
a. How would you choose good quality fruits and vegetables?
b. Ask the vendor to choose it for you.
c. Examine the fruit if it is free from insect bites and the smell of
insecticide.
d. Just get any kind and pay right away.
e. Tell your mother that you do not know how to buy good quality
fruits and vegetables.
10.During an experiment about a coin and feather that were dropped at the
same time, it was found that the coin reached the ground first. One
student said: “Maybe, the coin is heavier than the feather.” What do you
call this kind of statement?
a. a problem
b. a hypothesis
c. an interpretation
d. a conclusion
Communicating experimenting
Generalization Inferring
hypothesizing identifying the problem
Interpretation observation
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12.Blue litmus paper turned red when it was dipped into an unknown
liquid.
___________________
13.The liquid in the test tube is an acid. ____________________
14.The laptop computer is not functioning anymore. Maybe the battery got
discharged. ___________________.
15. A nail turned rusty. What made it that way? ________________
What’s In
In your previous year level, you learned how to construct a model of the
solar system showing the relative sizes of the planets and their relative distances
from the Sun.
In this module you will learn how describe the components of a scientific
investigation.
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What’s New
Guide Questions
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What is It
In this lesson, you will learn the scientists’ recommended step by step procedure of
identifying and solving problems. You will solve problems, think critically, analyze
data, find answers, and formulate research problems or questions.
1. Observation
2. Asking Questions
Asking questions starts with how, what, where, who, which, why, Or when.
Once you’ve made your observation, you must formulate a question about
what you have observed. Your questions should tell what is that you are
trying to discover or accomplish in your experiment. When stating your
question, you should be specific as possible.
Example:
Which of the three balls would hit the ground first?
This is just one of the questions you have formulated that can be
investigated.
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Doing Background research is important steps in science because it may
answer other questions you have and help you find your experiment before
you go on the path that Leads to nowhere or conducting an experiment that
already been done. Make sure you will use reliable resources to learn
background information such as scientific journals and online sources that
are valid and trusted our best.
3. Hypothesis
A hypothesis is an educated guess to explain the phenomena occurring
based on prior observations or a prediction of what you believe will occur. It
answers the question posed in the previous step. Hypotheses can be specific
or more general depending on the question being asked, but all hypotheses
must be testable by gathering evidence that can be measured.
After the problem has been identified, you now have to seek for the solution
of the problem or an answer to the question being generated. And this now
have something to do with the formulation of hypothesis.
It is often seen in an (If…then) statement.
4. Experimentation
After forming a hypothesis, an experiment must be set up and performed to
test the hypothesis. It is regarded as a cause – and – effect test between two
variables and has to follow fair testing. A fair test is making that an
experiment, one factor or condition (independent variable) affects another
(the dependent variable) by keeping all other conditions constant or the
same.
In other words, it is a controlled experiment that includes dependent and
independent variables.
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Independent variable – is the factor or condition that
Is change in an experiment
Directly caused by the experimenter
Manipulated in the experiment
The “what you do” in the experiment.
Example:
Three paper balls of different sizes released on the ground at the same
time.
Independent variable: size of the paper balls (being the cause of the
[[dependent variable)
Dependent variable: Time the ball hits the ground (being the result of
the independent variable).
Other Example
5.
Gathering Data
After performing an experiment and collecting data, one must analyze the
data. Research experiments are usually analyzed with statistical software in
order to determine relationships among the data. In the case of a simple
experiment, one would look at the data and see how they correlate with the
change in the independent variable. It is organized into a date table and
displayed visually as a graph such as line graph and bar graph.
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Size of the paper Time to reach the ground (seconds)
ball (inches)
Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3
3 3.4 3.4 3.6
2 2.0 2.0 2.3
1 1.5 1.5 1.0
Presenting the data in table form is easy to read because of its organized
presentation.
6. Conclusion
7. Communicating Results
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What’s More
Provide the letter of the definition that matches the scientific terms below.
b) An educated guess or a
tentative answer to a question.
e) A well-supported set of
observations and explanations
for natural events.
g) A measurable characteristics or
parameters that can be
controlled or changed in an
experiment.
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What I Have Learned
What I Can Do
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Problems of Locality Procedures in Solving the Problem
1.
2.
3.
Assessment
Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a
separate sheet of paper.
2. In what step of the Scientific Method do you go to the library or ask an expert?
a. Conclusion
b. Hypothesis
c. Problem
d. Information
5. The variable that you change in the experiment. Also called the manipulated
variable.
a. Controlled
b. Dependent
c. Independent
d. Responding
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6. The variable that changes because you changed the other variable. Also called
the responding variable.
a. Dependent
b. Independent
c. Controlled
d. Manipulated
7. The group in the experiment that does not get the variable is called the _______
group.
a. Dependent
b. Control
c. Independent
d. Responding
8. The variables in the experiment that do not change are called the __________
variables.
a. Controlled
b. Independent
c. Dependent
d. Manipulated
11. A series of steps designed to help you solve problems and answer questions.
a. observation
b. hypothesis
c. scientific method
d. Experiment
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14. A students were asked to designed a lab that investigated the relationship
between exercises and heart rate. Heart rate was determined by recording the pulse
rate in beats per minute. The students hypothesized that increased exercised
results in an increased heart rate. The class results for the experiment are shown
in the graph below.
Source: khanacademy.org
15. If I put 3 spider plants in different locations, then the plant in the sunlight will
grow taller in a one-week period than the plants in the closet and basement. On the
above experiment, what is the independent variable?
a. Location of the plants
b. height of plants
c. both A and B
d. none of the above
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Additional Activities
Using the numbers 1-6, indicate the order of events in using the scientific method.
______ 1. Test the hypothesis by performing an experiment.
______ 2. Make observations and record data.
______ 3. Make a hypothesis and an experimental prediction.
______ 4. Identify the problem to be studied.
______ 5. Use data and results to support a conclusion.
______ 6. Perform background research on the problem.
7-10 for 4 points. A student proposes that, if volunteers warm up before squeezing
a clothespin for one minute, they will increase the number of times that they can
squeeze it without tiring. He states that this is because their muscles will be better
prepared for exercise. The data from an experiment are shown in the data table
below.
Students Results
Trial Group Group Description Average Number of
Squeezes/minute
1 1 10 students who warm up before 72
squeezing
2 2 10 students who do not warm up before 73
squeezing
3 3 25 students who warm up before 67
squeezing
4 4 25 students who do not warm up before 65
squeezing
Which trial from the chart above provides the best data to support his claim?
Support your answer.
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Answer Key
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References
https://lrmds.deped.gov.ph/pdf-view/7121
www.majordifferences.com
https://www.majordifferences.com/2018/09/difference-between-controlled-group-and-controlled-
variable-with-example.html#.Xw5hHigzbIU
picture
https://www.thoughtco.com/steps-of-the-scientific-method-p2-606045
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