TELL OTHERS WHAT WAS
FOUND
•Select an audience
•Decide on the best way to
communicate
•Include data tables
•Report conclusions
CREATE MEANING
•Organize your data
•Analyze your data
•Make inferences and draw
conclusions
•Check to see if you answered
your question
•Think of related questions
•Use your curiosity
•Find something of interest to
study
•Use your senses to learn
Scientific
Investigation
and
Reasoning
DESIGN AND CONDUCT
THE EXPERIMENT
•Form a hypothesis from your
question
•List experiment steps
•Identify materials you need
•Conduct the experiment
•Record data
Wheel of Scientific Investigation and Reasoning
MAKE OBSERVATIONS
ASK QUESTIONS
•Identify all of the questions you
have
•Select ONE question you want
to answer
LEARN MORE
•Find what you need to know
•Find what others know
•Learn more though
observations
•Reexamine your question