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In 6th grade Science, students used the steps in the Scientific Method to complete an experiment. Students first created a hypothesis for the scientific experiment, which  involved a penny, an eye dropper, plain water and soapy water. The students needed to figure out whether they thought that the penny would hold more plain water or if the penny would hold more soapy water. The procedure consisted of taking an eye dropper, which they used to drop  water onto the penny  and then kept track of the number of drops of water that have been placed on the penny until the water runs off the penny. Then students recorded the number of drops on their data sheet. They repeated the procedure with the soapy water until all students in the group had a chance to do the activity. At the end of the procedure, students needed to take the group data and figure out the mean/average. We then discussed the  results and whether their hypotheses were proven correct or incorrect.