Elyse is explaining to a friend that she will be conducting a scientific investigation. Her question is "How many leatherback sea turtles will migrate to their home beach on the eastern coast of Australia this season?" Elyse states her hypothesis is "1,200 leatherback sea turtles will migrate to their home beach on the eastern coast of Australia this season." For her procedure, she and a team of scientists will be observing and counting the number of turtles that land on the beach. What is unusual about the description of her scientific investigation?

The scientific investigation has five basic steps and one feedback step: (1) to make an observation (2) to ask a question (3) hypothesize (4) predict and (5) make a new hypothesis based on the results. What is unusual about the description of Elyse’s scientific investigation is she did not follow the basic steps. She should have done observation first before asking a question and forming a hypothesis.

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