“Think like a Scientist with Scout: A Guided Journey through the Scientific Method” introduces students to the Scientific Method. Students are guided through the process side-by-side with Kayle who has found a very interesting creature in the woods. Throughout her journey, Scout is there to encourage her and teach her important concepts. In the book, Kayle practices the four steps of the Scientific Method. Throughout, she learns to ask questions and make observations just like a real scientist!

The four steps of the Scientific Method are:
Hypothesis: Your best Bold Guess to explain a phenomenon based upon
the information you know at that time.
Research: The process of learning more about a subject. The
new knowledge may be used to improve a hypothesis and design experiments.
Experiment: The process of testing a hypothesis or making a new
discovery.
Conclusion: The overall results of an experiment that explain if a
hypothesis was correct.

This book covers Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Scientific Practices.