PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Colorful Hypothesis
Use "Dinosaur Train" to illustrate and excite your students about creating a hypothesis. Website includes a video of "Dinosaur Train", a lesson plan, and student's handout. Lesson plan includes a lab where students can practice making...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Scientific Method Variables/hypothesis
Find out what variables are in a scientific investigation and what the difference is between an independent, dependent, and controlled variable. Look at samples of different types of variables and find out what makes a good variable.
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Writing Hypotheses
This informative page describes the true purposes of the hypothesis and how it should be used. Not only shows how they are written, but also helps students figure out the dependent versus independent variable.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Scientific Inquiry: Outcomes and Predictions
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on identifying possible outcomes and making predictions.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Fighting Dinos: New Discoveries
A virtual investigation surmising how two fighting dinosaurs died in the Gobi Desert.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Hypothesis
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores the criteria of a scientific hypothesis and why a hypothesis cannot be proven true.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Publishing: Practicing Scientific Processes
This site from Glencoe Publishing not only explains hypothesis but also tells how to design an experiment to test your hypothesis. Includes the difficult task of "Separating and controlling variables."
SRI International
Performance Assessment Links in Science: Follow Those Tracks
This lesson plan requires students to make an inference (hypothesis) about two animals based on the tracks they leave behind. Students are asked to write a story explaining their inference.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Prediction and Inference: A Reading Strategy
This downloadable slideshow focuses on prediction and inference including the similarities and differences between them, when the reader does each, and questions to ask as you are reading.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: A Hypothesis Is
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will learn the basic concept of Hypothesis. They will learn the difference from Full Hypothesis, Simple Hypothesis and Simple Statement.
PBS
Pbs: Eggs Plore Science by Making Meringues
Practice the scientific steps of making predictions, observations, and discoveries while making this simple meringue recipe.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Real Difference Between Hypothesis and Prediction
Learn what a prediction and a hypothesis are in statistics and how they differ. Includes examples demonstrating the differences.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Scientific Methodology: Einstein
[Free Registration/Login Required] Test your understanding of falsifiable hypotheses.