This theme covers the following scientific processes:

• Observing
• Communicating
• Measuring
• Predicting
• Inferring
• Drawing Conclusions
• Experimenting
• Hypothesizing
• Recording and Relating

The scientific process is based on observations and carrying out experiments to demonstrate the validity or otherwise of the observations. The steps of the scientific method that are covered in this theme are:

• The research question
• The background research
• The formulation of the hypothesis
• The testing of the hypothesis through experimentation
• The analysis of data and its interpretation and the communication of results.