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Have you ever been just sitting around, enjoying , when you WONDERed about something? Perhaps it was something you noticed for the first time. Maybe it was something an animal did. Whatever it was, it made you WONDER and a probably popped into your mind.

Did you find the to your ? In today's world, how would you go about learning more about whatever it is that made you WONDER? You might have asked a friend, family member or a teacher. You may have grabbed the nearest computer or smartphone to the power of the Internet to your .

The Internet is a powerful that puts so much of the world's information right at our fingertips. But what would you have done before the Internet came along? How would you have answered questions about the world around you hundreds of years ago?

Most of the world's greatest scientists and inventors didn't have the luxuries of information available today. And that's probably a good thing. The methods they developed for systematically exploring the world around them led to great discoveries and ways of doing things that have laid a foundation for modern science.

What are we talking about? The scientific , of course! You've probably heard that before in your science classes. The scientific is simply how scientists learn about and study the world around them. When you learn about the scientific , you're really learning about how to learn!

The great thing about the scientific is that it's so basic. Although science might sometimes seem complicated, the scientific can be used to study and learn about anything, from a frog or a tree to Mars or an entire galaxy.

The scientific really down to questions and answers. The world is full of questions. Scientists use the scientific to try to come up with answers to the questions they have about the world around them.

There are many different ways to the scientific , but you can break it down into six basic steps:

All scientific inquiry begins with a mind. What problems do you see around you that need solutions? What questions come to mind as you look at the world?

Once you have a problem or identified, you need to collect information . Performing today is much easier thanks to the Internet. Real scientific study, though, will almost always require you to go beyond the Internet to make real-world observations.

Based upon your observations and , you'll need to form a hypothesis , which is often referred to as an " ." This is your best idea of what the to your or problem is.

To make it more than a , you need to test it. This requires experimentation . Science experiments come in all shapes and sizes. They don't always need a laboratory with beakers full of chemicals. Sometimes your experiments may occur in social situations at home, school, or in a mall.

Scientists just need to make sure that their experiment is designed to test their hypothesis , while also excluding other events that could shape or affect the outcome. Once you have conducted an experiment -or many experiments!-you'll need to analyze your results to see if your hypothesis was correct.

If it was correct, you'll want to present your results to others. Scientific inquiry is truly valuable when its results are shared with the world, so that others can benefit from your work. Other scientists may use your results as a starting point for additional .

If your hypothesis wasn't correct, use your results to help you alter your hypothesis and then test it again. After all, the only mistakes in science are the ones you don't learn from!

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If you're like most kids, you probably hunt for most of your food in the aisles of your local store. If you're hungry for some crunchy green vegetables, you can head over to the and stalk some wild celery. Or if pizza sounds good, you can hide out in the frozen food until just the right moment to snatch that frozen pizza from the freezer!

In many places around the world - and for wild animals - finding food to life is not nearly as easy as a trip to the supermarket . In the wild, it often comes down to a simple question: are you or ? And the answer is sometimes both!

All living things need energy. Energy comes from the foods we eat. A food chain is a simple way of explaining how each living thing gets its food. For example, a simple African food chain might consist of three parts: (1) trees and bushes; (2) giraffes; and (3) lions. Giraffes eat trees and bushes for food, and lions eat giraffes.

Each link in a food chain is food for the next link. Food chains always start with plants and end with animals.

Plants are at the bottom of the food chain. Scientists call them producers, because they use light energy from the sun to food from carbon dioxide and water through photosynthesis.

Animals, unlike plants, can't their own food. Instead, they must eat plants or other animals. This is why scientists call them consumers.

animals fall into three categories. Herbivores eat only plants. Carnivores eat only other animals. Omnivores eat both plants and animals. What kind of are you?

In addition to producers and consumers, there are also decomposers. These organisms, such as bacteria and fungi, feed on matter. They help the food chain by speeding up the process that releases minerals back into the soil to be absorbed by plants as .

Most food chains have only four or five links in them. As you go up a food chain, the amount of energy at each level decreases, because some of the energy is lost in the form of waste or is used up by the organism at that level. That is why it takes many plants, for example, to feed a few giraffes who in turn feed one lion.

Most animals are part of many different food chains, because they must eat more than one type of food to satisfy their energy needs. All of these interconnected food chains form a more called a food web.

Humans, for example, are at the center of a very food web, because we tend to eat many different types of plants and animals. And unlike what you may have read in fairy tales, there aren't many animals that look at humans as food.

The only creatures who might snack on a human are large predators, such as sharks. However, it's very rare for humans to be eaten by predators. Most predators have more to fear from humans than we have to fear from them!

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