| A | B |
| Problem | The question you want to answer; the purpose of your investigation |
| Research | Find more information about your subject to inform your hypothesis |
| Hypothesis | Your prediction of what you think will happen in your experiment |
| Experiment | Conduct a fair test of your hypothesis and record your observations |
| Analysis | Organize your data and analyze the results |
| Conclusion | Determine whether your hypothesis was correct and if anything in your experiment may need to be adjusted |
| Manipulated (Independent) Variable | The variable that you change in the experimant |
| Responding Variable (Dependent Variable) | The variable that changes in response to the manipulated variable |