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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: A Colorful Hypothesis

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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...
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Lesson Plan
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Scientific Method Variables/hypothesis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Handout
National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Writing Hypotheses

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Scientific Inquiry: Outcomes and Predictions

For Students 3rd - 8th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on identifying possible outcomes and making predictions.
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Fighting Dinos: New Discoveries

For Students 3rd - 8th
A virtual investigation surmising how two fighting dinosaurs died in the Gobi Desert.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Hypothesis

For Students 9th - 10th
[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.
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Handout
McGraw Hill

Glencoe Publishing: Practicing Scientific Processes

For Students 9th - 10th
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."
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Unit Plan
SRI International

Performance Assessment Links in Science: Follow Those Tracks

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.
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PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Prediction and Inference: A Reading Strategy

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
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.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: A Hypothesis Is

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[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.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs: Eggs Plore Science by Making Meringues

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Practice the scientific steps of making predictions, observations, and discoveries while making this simple meringue recipe.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Real Difference Between Hypothesis and Prediction

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what a prediction and a hypothesis are in statistics and how they differ. Includes examples demonstrating the differences.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix: Scientific Methodology: Einstein

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Test your understanding of falsifiable hypotheses.