introduce students to the prime components of the scientific method involving the formulation and use of a predictive, testable, and potentially falsified hypothesis, the design of appropriate experiments, the observation, measurement, and critical analysis of experimental data, the drawing of appropriate conclusions, and the acceptance, rejection or revision of the initial hypothesis.
(the scientific method; involving; the formulation and use of a predictive, testable, and potentially falsified hypothesis)
the scientific method
involving
the formulation and use of a predictive, testable, and potentially falsified hypothesis