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Part I In preparation for this assignment review the following video: “Scientific Method Classroom Lesson: Myth Buster. Flag Hoax on the moon” located at: Scientific Method Classroom Lesson: Myth Buster. Flag Hoax on the moon Develop a substantive response in which you describe the different variables found in every hypothesis-driven experiment in your own words: Hypothesis Independent Variable Dependent variable Control Variable Part II “Scientific Method explained using Monty Python's "We Found a Witch"” located at: Scientific Method explained using Monty Python's "We Found A Witch" ( Discuss the sources of error in the experiment presented in the video. How you would change the parts of the experiment to gain viable results? What type of data would be produced and how would it be quantified? Be sure and include the following parts in your experiment. Initial Observation Hypothesis Independent variable Dependent variable Control group/Constants Data collected Possible Results Possible Conclusion Within the Myth Buster clip people observed that as the astronaut put the flag into the face of the moon the flag was waving like it was in the wind. However, people questioned why this was happening because there is no atmosphere or wind on the moon. The tentative answer also know as the hypothesis to this question is a result of the astronaut putting the flag pole into the ground. The control would be the astronaut (in this experiment the myth buster) moving the flag pole to create the wave in the flag. The independent variable in this case is the atmosphere being change with a vacuum seal vault to test the dependent variable of the movement of the flag. In this case the hypothesis was supported that the flags waving was created by the astronaut and not “wind”. The initial observation in “We Found a Witch” was that a women looked like a witch, witches burn and are made of wood, and wood float. The hypothesis was that if the women was the same weight of a duck because ducks and wood both float, then she was a witch. They used scales (independent variable) to measure the weight difference in the women and duck (dependent variable). I do not believe this experiment had a very good control, I would have weighed two ducks in each scale to see if they were accurate. I would also change my hypothesis because humans float too. In the clip they came to the conclusion she was a witch because she weighed the same as the duck.
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