This is one of my science songs from the CD Island of Life. It is available on iTunes and many other download sites. It is also available on CD Baby. Below are the lyrics and a brief lesson to accompany the song.
The scientific method is hard they sigh
But all it is, is asking why
Look at the world and what do you see?
Millions of questions floating so free
What do you see?
What is a fact?
The scientific method will tell you that
Ask a question then make a guess
Set out to prove it was there success?
Making discoveries finding things out
Asking what this world is all about
Listen real well
What do you hear?
The scientific method will make things clear
What will you find?
It may be unknown
The scientific method will you know
Scientists are curious so they make a plan
They set objectives to understand
Scientists are logical to keep things straight
They're open minded people who investigate
Science is real
It's all around
Observing and thinking will make you proud
What will you find?
It may be unknown
The scientific method will let you know
Scientific Method Lesson
Scientists are very curious people. They want to know how
things work. By understanding how things work they can solve many problems.
Just think of a car mechanic. Car mechanics understand the engine of a car.
By understanding how the engine works they can fix your car when it does not
run right. Mechanics are the scientists of car engines. Doctors are the
scientists of the human body. Can you think of any other kinds of scientists?
Here is an example of how the scientific method works:
· You
wake up one morning and you have a sore throat. You do not feel sick so you
do not know what is causing your throat to hurt.
Identify the problem –
Your throat hurts and you do not know why.
· That
afternoon you go to the doctor. You tell her all of the food and drink that
you have put down your throat. You tell her what time you went to bed. You
try and think of anyone with whom you have had close contact. The doctor
looks down your throat and takes your temperature. You have just Gathered
evidence.
· The
doctor makes a hypothesis that you have strep throat.
· The
doctor takes a throat culture from your throat to test her hypothesis in
an experiment.
· In
her experiment she gently rubs a Petri dish with your throat culture.
She marks this dish “Experimental”. This experimental dish is also known as
the variable. She has another Petri dish with a sample of the
organism known to cause strep throat. This sample is called the control.
· The
doctor says that she will call you in 24 hours with the results. When she
calls you she reports that you do not have strep throat. Another kind of
bacterium has caused your throat to be sore. Thus, she has rejected her
original hypothesis. Now she takes all the information that she gathered from
you and records it into her note book. She has noticed other patients with similar
sore throats and wants to investigate how people are contracting this
bacterium. She will do more research, make a new hypothesis, and conduct more
experiments.
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