The Scientific Method is a well-refined process for solving a problem.
- Purpose/Problem ... What do you want to learn? What problem do you want to solve?
- Research ... find out as much as you can about the problem, from a variety of sources. Takke copious notes.
- Hypothesis ... Try to predict the answer to the problem, an "educated guess" ... "If I (do something), then (this will occur)".
- Experiment ... Design a test or procedure to confirm of disprove your hypothesis. Implement this process.
- Analysis ... Record what happened during the experiment. Collect data.
- Conclusion ... Review the data and check to see if your hypothesis was correct.
- Iteration ... Change what didn't work and test it again.