How can I perform an experiment using the steps of the scientific method?

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Scientific Method

• How can I perform an experiment using the steps
  of the scientific method?
• Can I change the data I have collected from an
  experiment into a table, graph, or diagram?

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Step 1 Question/Observation

• Would people prefer to eat spiders or worms?

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Step 2 Research

• Ask other people and look up information.

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Why do people eat worms?

• Silk worms make up the main ingredient in a very
  popular dish in Korea. It was originally made
  with rotten baby worms, but evolved to use
  freshly dead male worms. The worms are battered,
  crumbed, and fried in oil. In some places they
  are merely skewered and fried (as is seen in the
  picture below).

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Why do people eat Spiders?

• The thought of eating spiders probably makes most
  of us queasy, to say the least. But, in various
  parts of the world, spiders are a delicacy. You
  can buy them at road-side stalls in Cambodia,
  where people developed a taste for them when they
  were being starved to death by Pol Pot.

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Step 3 Hypothesis

• Educated guess
• Task Come up with your own hypothesis on what
  people would rather eat worms or spiders.
• Remember to explain yourself.

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Reality Check

• How can I perform an experiment using the steps
  of the scientific method?

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Step 4 Experiment

• Tests your hypothesis.
• Example Take a survey and see what the majority
  of people would eat.

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Reality Check

• Can I change the data I have collected from an
  experiment into a table, graph, or diagram?

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Table, Graph, or Digram

• Create a table to show the data you collected.

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STEP 5 CONCLUSION

• Accept or reject your hypothesis.
• Explain why your hypothesis was correct or
  incorrect.

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Reality Check

• How can I perform an experiment using the steps
  of the scientific method?
• Can I change the data I have collected from an
  experiment into a table, graph, or diagram?

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Creepy facts

• The most commonly eaten worms around the globe
  include agave worms, sago worms and mealworms.
  Most people describe these worms as nutty and
  creamy. One popular way people prepare these
  worms is by frying them just like you'd fry
  crickets or locusts. These common worms are eaten
  all throughout the world

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Creepy facts

• Fried spider is a regional delicacy in Cambodia.
  In the Cambodian town of Skuon, the vending of
  fried spiders as a specialty snack is a popular
  attraction for tourists passing through this
  town. Spiders are also available elsewhere in
  Cambodia in Phnom Penh for instance but
  Skuon, is the center of their popularity. The
  spiders are bred in holes in the ground in
  villages north of Skuon, or foraged for in nearby
  forestland, and fried in oil. It is not clear how
  this practice started, but some have suggested
  that the population might have started eating
  spiders out of desperation during the years of
  Khmer Rouge rule, when food was in short supply