As a student scientist, picture being asked to determine if a light object and a heavy object will fall at the same speed. Consider the following problem in order to walk through the process of planning an investigation. Your first step in the scientific method is to: a. collect data b. locate two objects of different weight c. think of an experiment d. form a hypothesis
The first step to every scientific experiment is to formulate a hypothesis, which includes what you are experimenting on and what you are expecting (hoping) to see as the final results.