What is a hypothesis?
Your hypothesis should be something that you can actually test. In other words, you need to be able to measure both "what you do" and "what will happen." Most of the time a hypothesis is written in the form of an "If...then...because" statement. For example: "If I place two different denominations of coins on the ground in a public place, then the largest value will always be the one to be picked up because people will always go for the largest amount of money." In the example above, the hypothesis is written in a way that an experiment can be conducted. At this stage, you are not trying to answer your hypothesis. Your experiment will do that for you. A hypothesis is an educated guess based on the research that you have done. The site, Science Buddies ,has wonderful information on how to write a strong hypothesis. Write your hypothesis and then move on to Step 4. |