The Scientific Method Today

Because of thorough searching, exploration, and information gathering, the teams of NASA scientists, engineers, technicians, and astronauts were able to solve the complex problem of landing man on the moon.

The dream became a reality on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong took man's first step on the moon.

In searching for information to include in this booklet, I used over 15,000 Post-it ^TM Notes to mark helpful pages.

Dr Art Fry invented 3M's Post-it ^TM Notes to satisfy a felt need to efficiently mark pages. Experimenting with a special adhesive developed by 3M's Dr. Silver, Dr. Fry explored and persevered to develop his idea into a fabulously successful product.

Stage #4 :

This is the heart of problem solving. You start to search everywhere, explore all angles, leads, clues, and sources of information.

Pick out the basic principles of the material you read, see, or hear. Gather all the evidence that will help ou solve the problem, always trying to use innovation and creativity, thus building your list of possible tentative solutions.

Learn how to process information productively. Put your thoughts in writing.

Reasons:

1. Provides you with direction and scope in your search.
   
2. Enables you to utilize imagination before being influenced by prevailing thoughts and theories.

• Keep log.
• Build files using all resources.
• Enlist team of advisors.
• Prepare broad literature search.
• List any known sub-problems.
• Read about How-To-Research.