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The Process of Forming a Hypothesis
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Audience: Educators and StudentsGrades: 5-8
This NASA video segment explores how the human sense of balance is affected by microgravity. Viewers watch astronauts on board the space shuttle and learn that the microgravity environment of space forces astronauts to rely more on their eyes than on their internal balance system to maintain balance. Viewers watch astronauts perform an experiment to test this hypothesis about balance and reach that conclusion. Forming a hypothesis is one of the steps in the scientific method.
The Process of Forming a Hypothesis
Duration: 1 minute 58 seconds
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This video clip is part of the Liftoff to Learning: Assignment Spacelab DVD that may be ordered from the Central Operation of Resources for Educators, or CORE →.
Other video learning clips in this series:
Why Controlled Experiments Are Important on Earth and in Space
Using the General Purpose Work Station (GPWS) in Space
Identifying, Labeling, and Measuring for Experiment Safety