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Science: Working Scientifically

Books

General Science books including Scientific Method can be found in the non fiction collection around the numbers 500, 503, 507 and through to 576. If Science is your thing - go and have a look at the shelves - books are often better than websites because you can immerse yourself in them.

Links to science Video sites

Crash Course on You Tube Videos
These are just amazing - there are very entertaining and short guides on a very wide range of subjects from Literature to Chemistry

DNA Tube
High quality science clips on a variety of topics

Khan Academy
A multimedia lesson bank with over 3,000 ten minute videos to help you learn Maths, statistics, physics, chemistry, history and economics

10 science YouTube channels you can't miss
Includes Minute Physics; The Science Channel; SciShow; The Periodic Table of Videos, AsapSCIENCE and the excellent Vsauce.

125 great science videos
Astronomy, physics, psychology, biology, ecology, technology....

Veritasium
Veritasium is a channel of science and engineering videos featuring experiments, expert interviews, cool demos, and discussions with the public about everything science. Recommended by Kilbreda Teachers.

Graphs

Beginner's Guide to Graphing Data
Paul Andersen explains how graphs are used to visually display data that is collected in experimentation. He describes five main types of graphs; line graph, scatter plot, bar graph, histogram and pie chart. He describes the important elements of a successful graph including labeled axis, title, data and a line of fit.

How to write a hypothesis

The steps below form the basic outline of the Scientific Method:

Ask a Question.
Do Background Research.
Construct a Hypothesis.
Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment.
Analyze Your Data and Draw a Conclusion.
Communicate Your Results.

Writing a hypothesis for your science fair
A hypothesis is a tentative, testable answer to a scientific question. Once a scientist has a scientific question she is interested in, the scientist reads up to find out what is already known on the topic. Then she uses that information to form a tentative answer to her scientific question.

Drawing a Resources Table

Image sourced from https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/drawing-tables-12207950 accessed February 2020