The Scientific Process
Scientific Process According to a text book the scientific method is super simple and very vague when in reality it is a more complex or detailed process. According to this reading it is nothing to run screaming from because it’s not difficult it just goes deeper than a text book explains or allows you to believe. These are the steps according to a science text book: Scientific Method:
1. Ask a question
2. Formulate a hypothesis
3. Perform an experiment
4. Collect data
5. Draw conclusions
Which is what we all learned throughout grade school but there is so much more to how science really works. Science is not a cook book where you have to go along with exactly what is going on there is so much more to it than that. It was stated that …show more content…
Talk about getting way off track. This kind of goes along with asking a question “What is this and how does it work?” and while they are trying to figure that out another thing sneaks in so it’s back to square one. In the text book versions it sums up to a conclusion that science has no room for creativity which is untrue because science actually thrives off of creative minds. It also says that science is done by one individual person when in reality it’s like a hive of amazing minds just buzzing around and coming up with new ideas. The real process of science is nonlinear and looks more like a circled chart. The first step of this in depth process is usually just a bunch of scientists poking around making observations, asking questions, sharing data and ideas, finding inspiration, and exploring the literature. When it comes to observation though scientists are not limited to just what they see it is also made up of things unknown to the eyes like, smells or tastes for example. Of course these observations will turn to a hypothesis that needs to be tested and gone over. The next step happens to be scientific testing which also happens to be the heart of
1. Ask a question
2. Formulate a hypothesis
3. Perform an experiment
4. Collect data
5. Draw conclusions
Which is what we all learned throughout grade school but there is so much more to how science really works. Science is not a cook book where you have to go along with exactly what is going on there is so much more to it than that. It was stated that …show more content…
Talk about getting way off track. This kind of goes along with asking a question “What is this and how does it work?” and while they are trying to figure that out another thing sneaks in so it’s back to square one. In the text book versions it sums up to a conclusion that science has no room for creativity which is untrue because science actually thrives off of creative minds. It also says that science is done by one individual person when in reality it’s like a hive of amazing minds just buzzing around and coming up with new ideas. The real process of science is nonlinear and looks more like a circled chart. The first step of this in depth process is usually just a bunch of scientists poking around making observations, asking questions, sharing data and ideas, finding inspiration, and exploring the literature. When it comes to observation though scientists are not limited to just what they see it is also made up of things unknown to the eyes like, smells or tastes for example. Of course these observations will turn to a hypothesis that needs to be tested and gone over. The next step happens to be scientific testing which also happens to be the heart of