you have to design an experiment to test your hypothesis before you test a hypothesis you may predict what you think will happen when you test the hypothesis after forming a hypothesis you must test it you must find out if it is a reasonable answer to your question if it is not reasonable you must change hypothesis in this step you need to have a procedure that describes how an experiment will be carried out you may have difficulty to test heat conduction with spoons because you may not find the same size of spoons made of different materials you may experiment with metal rods and ceramic rods if metal rods conduct heat better than ceramic rods then metal spoons should conduct heat faster than the ceramic spoon