Ghost in a jar

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell’s attempts
to electrically transmit speech
resulted in a patent for the
telephone in 1876. Bell founded the
Bell Telephone Company to
manufacture telephones and
operate the telephone network.
Bell’s company, later known as
AT&T Corp., grew to dominate the
telecommunications industry until a
1984 antitrust suit divested the
company of its local telephone
networks.

1) Scientist obtain knowledge by doing

scientific investigation.
Steps in scientific investigation:

Scientist use the scientific method when carry

out scientific investigation.

They follow the steps to make sure that what

they do is systematic and reliable.
 STEPS 1: IDENTIFYING
THE PROBLEM

STEPS 2: MAKING A
HYPOTHESIS
Try to provide an answer to
the above question by making a
smart guess.
STEPS 3: PLANNING THE
EXPERIMENT
Planning how to test your smart
guess
Involved:
What apparatus to be use
What observation to make
What measurement to take
How to record the observation
 STEPS 4: CONTROLLING
THE VARIABLES.
Decide what condition that you
are going to change
You would need to decide:
Which things must not change
Which things you will change
What you will observe or
measure

STEPS 5: COLLECTING
DATA
Decide how to record the
observation
In sentences
In table
 STEPS 6: ANALYSING &
INTEPRETING DATA.
Find the best way to present
the data
Study your data carefully and
find if there are any pattern in
your data.
You may present it in the form
of a graph.

STEPS 7: MAKING A
CONCLUSION
Based on the pattern in the
result of your investigation,
make a conclusion whether the
smart guess that you made is
true.
 STEPS 8: WRITING A
REPORT.
Write your full report of your
investigation in your science
report book.
 Steps in scientific investigation:
IDENTIFYING THE
WRITING A REPORT.
PROBLEM

MAKING A HYPOTHESIS MAKING A CONCLUSION

PLANNING THE ANALYSING &

EXPERIMENT INTEPRETING DATA.

CONTROLLING THE
COLLECTING DATA
VARIABLES.