Step 4: Students design ways of testing their science
questions.
After students finish their background research, they will need to start
designing ways of testing their science questions. There are a number
of ways of doing this: building and using a model to study a natural process;
designing an experiment; conducting a survey or making observations from
a field study. It is better for younger students to test questions with
direct observations or by using existing models. Older students may be
able to create and use surveys or design and conduct controlled experiments.