Experimental design

Today we'll be looking at different aspects of Scientific experiments.  Answer the following questions in your books to help prepare for the assignment.

1. What is the independent variable in an experiment? - http://www.ncsu.edu/labwrite/po/independentvar.htm
2. Explain what the dependent variable? - http://labwrite.ncsu.edu/po/dependentvar.htm 
3. Complete this quiz - http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz97961224e8.html 
4. Explain what a hypothesis is - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/dida/using_ict/questionnairesrev1.shtml 
 
5. Watch the video on this link, use earphones if you have them. What was cookie monster's hypothesis? Did the experiment support it? Clicking on one of the other objects will open the video in Youtube, and then you can click on them and see what happens.

6. Complete this quiz - http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/quiz/mquiz.asp?filename=ccarrollgraph 

7. When we calculated the average height of Boys and Girls in class, what were some control variables that we DIDN'T meet? - http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_variables.shtml

Try this once you're done - http://www.quia.com/mc/65726.html  
http://www.quia.com/quiz/760453.html