Scientific Method Process September 6, 2008
Posted by iwanthho in Garage, On-Demand.Tags: experiment, HHO, Kids club, method, NASA, process, scientific
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If we do not understand this term fully then a little help from children is in order.
I watch the NASA channel a lot and they have a kids program that I have a great deal of respect for. The Tree House Detectives, is a program aimed at Elementary to Junior High Youth to inspire learning and science development. I have found a wealth of important principals that I need for problem solving.
Here is the NASA website for the program
http://scifiles.larc.nasa.gov/
Here is a explanation of it well done at Science Buddies
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/mentoring/project_scientific_method.shtml
So you got your HHO cell making gas now how can you make it more efficient.
- What is it’s efficiency?
- What does research tell me about the result?
- What part do I change?
- How does it compare to Michael Faraday?
- What is taking place chemically for what my result is?
- Did I write down the variables and outcome of this experiment?
- Do I need to take a continuing educations class in Physics on Electrical Engineering?
I think this method does in no way quench creativity or inspiration. I wish only for us all to be successful and when the breakthrough comes we can know exactly how it happened and not lose what has been gained.
I have a while to go before I feel that I have experimental data to offer for review, but I hope that I will. This type of work is exciteting and promising but it needs credibility in the data. I like it when the experimenter talks out what they have went thought and describes the results. A standard benchmark to compare results with enough information to duplicate the experiment. That is called “peer review”. Laboratory Instrument are so rarely used because of budget constraints. There are ways of making measurements or getting in contact with a high school chemistry teacher who might even want to invole there class. A key that unlocks the door you have been struggling with might only be kept by someone else.
We need to be standing on the shoulders of giants not reinventing the wheel each time. This blog is for me but I hope it encourage you too.

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