scientific method

Every year, any science class begins with learning about the scientific method. Although teachers add their own little things to the method sometimes, it usually consists of a question, a hypothesis, a list of materials needed, the procedure, the data and results, and a conclusion. Even though students might thing that the scientific method is just the way fun gets taken away from doing experiments, this method actually tries to minimize the influence of bias or prejudice in the experimenter. Bias can cause one scientist to prefer one outcome over another, but the scientific method provides an objective, standardized approach to conducting experiments. This information might seem a little new because in class students usually perform the scientific methods on experiments that have already been done before and they already know what their conclusion should look like. On the other hand, scientists use the scientific method to come up with new experiments and prove theories.

Although it might seem boring or useless to some, the scientific method is really important. Not only because of the objectivity it provides, but also because of the organization. Imagine having to do experiments without it. How would you turn that paper in? Would you know you had to make an educated guess about the experiment? What if you skipped the procedures and went straight to the data and results? The scientific method allows experiments to be complete. That way if I do an experiment using the scientific method, anyone else can use what I wrote down, follow the same steps and get exactly the same result.

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