Control and Experimental Group Teacher Resources

An outline walks your scientists through the steps of the scientific process. It begins by taking a general idea and developing a hypothesis based on related factors. Each investigator then plans a method for testing the hypothesis,...

Middle schoolers demonstrate how to create and test a hypothesis. They design an experiment and set up a variable, experimental group and control group.

Students observe how to spawn male and female pencil sea urchins. They mix together the sperm and ova from the live sea urchin to observe and record the events occurring in the control and experimental groups for fertilization. Thus,...

Ninth graders examine how a scientific investigation is performed. They read and discuss examples of various scientific experiments, design an experiment involving fast growing plants, and create graphs and charts to present their...

In this science activity, middle schoolers examine the topic in order to solidify knowledge covered in the curriculum using puzzles and creative games.

In this science worksheet, students find the words that are related to the design of experimental research and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.

Students are given a problem or hypothesis, they can create a relevant experiment using the steps to the scientific method. They collect quantitative and qualitative observations in scientific experiments. Students identify the...

Eighth graders examine and discuss signaled sentence-combining. They read sentences and then combine them. They revise paragraphs from their own compositions using sentence-combining.

Students explain the principles of experimental design and reinforce the steps of the scientific method. Each group of students create a "slush" type mixture to store a chicken liver.

High schoolers explain the standard growth pattern of a monocot seedling and word process a finished essay.

This lesson will delineate the various categorization of subjects into groups for the purpose of research.

Play a game of concentration by matching terms used in the scientific method to their proper description.

Review the nature of science with on-line flash cards.