Back in the old days people got answers to their questions in several ways. One way was actually by the scientific method, you ask your self a question you want to know. First you would have to research all the information that you can about your topic, the next step is to guess, and what would you think, this is known as the hypothesis. In order to show that your hypothesis was right or wrong you have to experiment. You should write out a procedure, a procedure is like showing things step by step. Materials you need could also be listed when i say step by step i mean the steps of the experiment than can be followed out clearly. When you are done writing out your experiment, you need to do it to see and test you hypothesis. Experiments are done to gather data. It is very that you follow your procedure, make good observations while doing the experiment, and keep records or charts to help you out. Another part of the scientific method are the results. Results are showing what happened after performing the experiment.
An example of the scientific method is like asking something like " Can a plant grow with out sunlight? " I would gather information about plants and their relationship with the sunlight. Now I have to think about what would happened if one plant didn't have sunlight and the other did. My educated guess would be that a plant cannot grow without sunlight because sunlight is where most plant's and trees get energy, to make food in order to survive. I gather my materials ( 2 seed plants, the sun and a dark place) I write what I'm going to do step by step with these materials, then preform my experiment. When days or even weeks pass I can make a chart which one is growing or if they both are. I see that one plant did not grow (the one with no sunlight) and that the other one did (the one with sunlight.) So therefor I saw that my hypothesis was correct.
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