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Now featuring the PREP Handbook with activities using Arabidopsis thaliana.
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What is the Scientific Method
The scientific method is utilized by scientist as well as others to critically evaluate and assess the natural world. The scientific method can provide you with a guideline on how to conduct, evaluate and follow up scientific experimentation. The many steps of the scientific method are depicted in this overview:
References on the Scientific Method and Scientific Thinking:
The Free Encyclopedia-- extensive explanation:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
This is science--includes alternates to the linear scientific method, including multiple working hypotheses
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/people/jlipps/science.html
John Platt 1962 paper on Strong Inference, nice discussion of T. C. Chamberlin's multiple working hypotheses
http://www.cof.orst.edu/cof/fs/gradprog/courses/radosevich/science.htm
Biology Project tutorial using the scientific method to investigate breast cancerhttp://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/cells/cells1.html
Teaching Critical Scientific Thinking
http://www.carleton.ca/~tpatters/teaching/climatechange/sciencemethod.html
http://teacher.nsrl.rochester.edu/phy_labs/AppendixE/AppendixE.html
