This bundle contains three standalone scientific method activities and a lesson on the scientific method. Each can be used to introduce the concept to students or as a review.

Buyer Comments:

- "Love the activity and practice to reinforce the concept"

- "User friendly! Students were engaged the entire class."

Included Activities and Lesson:

1) Scientific Method – M&M’s Activity – Graphing Experiment and Lesson

A fun activity and lesson to introduce your students to the Scientific Method using something your students can relate to.

We all have our favorite color – Red, Orange, Blue, Green, Yellow, and Dark Brown! But how good are the manufacturers at equally dividing them into each bag? Your job is to determine which colors are the most common within a pack of M&M’s.

Students Will Learn:

• How to collect data
• How to create a hypothesis
• How to record and represent results using tables and graphs
• How to interpret results and answer questions based on experimental data

Your resource includes the M&M's lab as well as my Scientific Method lesson. The lab is simple enough for most grades and can be graded (or not graded) accordingly.

Your Lab Includes:

• Materials
• Hypothesis
• Procedure
• Results
• Post-Lab Questions

Your Lesson Includes:

The 8 steps of the Scientific Method including examples and how-tos for each.

1. Questioning
2. Controlling Variables
3. Making a hypothesis
4. Planning
5. Performing
6. Observing
7. Analyzing
8. Discussing

2) Paper Airplane Scientific Method Lab Activity

Introduce or review the Scientific Method in a fun way with this simple activity. Your students will create various planes in order to test a single variable effect on flying distance. Great for inquiry, collaboration, and developing research skills. Fully editable Word document which can be altered to fit your students' needs. It can be as complicated or simple as you like and works great for students with learning difficulties.

This lab is meant to be done after learning/reviewing the scientific method.

- Scientific Literacy

- Science Lab Safety

- WHMIS, MSDS, HHPS

- Observations vs. Inferences

- Significant Digits/Figures

- Scientific Notation

- The Scientific Method

- Metric Conversions

3) The Scientific Method Project Based Learning Activity (PBL)

This is an engaging, problem-based inquiry activity that gets your students utilizing the Scientific Method to solve a real-life problem and learn to think critically. Designed for science students in the middle and high school grades, this activity is NGSS, Common Core, and STEM-aligned and uses common experiences and materials to apply your lessons in a meaningful way. Your resource is fully editable and can be uploaded to your class site or printed for students' use.

Learning Goals:

- Design a clear and concise experiment that can be used to solve a real-world problem

- Determine the difference between accuracy and precision

- Perform tasks commonly used in physics labs, namely: calculating the mean and standard deviation, determining modes, creating data tables, and graphing data

Prerequisites:

- Solving algebraic equations

This activity will motivate and engage your students and force them to think critically, analyze a common situation, apply what they’ve learned in a meaningful way, problem-solve and work collaboratively.

In this activity, your student's job is to:

1) Apply what they have learned both inside and outside the classroom to solve the posed problem in the best way possible

2) Conduct their own research to decide if they need to learn anything else in order to solve the problem

3) Make sure they answer all the questions you asked them by collecting data and providing evidence and reasoning for their responses.

Your complete resource includes a student and teacher version. The student version contains the basic information they can use to design and carry out their experiment. The teacher version includes the answer key, look-fors as well as teacher tips and tricks to make everything go smoothly.