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Choose a Topic
Pick a topic that:
Will be interesting.
You will be able to complete in the required
time.
( See handout for timeline.)
Title
Choose a title that reflects your topic and is
in the form a question
Purpose
Write 1 to 3 sentences describing what you
want to find out in this project.
Research
Research should be designed to get background
information about your topic, before you begin
your experiment.
Develop 3 questions that you want to answer about
your topic.
Try to use various sources for your research.
Suggested sources:
Books
Magazines
Newspapers
Internet
Hypothesis
Make your guess
Use your research to make an educated guess about
how you think your experiment will turn out.
Procedure
Design your experiment
Design your experiment so that they only test for one thing.
Make sure that you do the same things to all groups of objects being
tested.
Example: If you are testing plants:
Use the same seeds.
Plant all of them with the same soil.
Put them all in the same amount of light for the same amount of
time.
The only thing that should be different about the plants is that one
received coffee and the other water.
Procedure
To increase the validity of your experiment
Procedure
Write down step-by-step directions on how
to do your experiment.
Example
Procedure
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Materials
Make a complete list of everything
you will use in your experiment.
Tell how many and how much of
each object used.
Use metric measures only.
Do your experiment.
Have fun !
Bar-comparison
Pie-percentage
Line-change/time
Results
Using your data write a few sentences how your
experiment turned out.
Example:
From reading my charts and graphs, I know that
Plant Group #1 grew an average of 40cm with
100ml of coffee. Plant Group #2 grew and average
of 20cm with 100ml of water. The Plant Group that
was given coffee grew 20cm more on the average
than the Plant Group that was given water.
Conclusion
Write down why you think your experiment turned
out the way it did, include if your hypothesis was
supported or not.
Conclusion
Example:
My hypothesis was supported. The plants that
were watered with coffee ( caffeine ) grew taller
than those that were given water. Therefore,
caffeine has a positive effect on the growth of
pea plants. This may be due the fact that
caffeine is a stimulant. The caffeine could have
stimulated the plant to grow.
Future Considerations
Tell what variable you would change if you
could do the experiment again.
Tell how you might take your experiment to
the next step.
Future Considerations
Example
Helpful Resources
Science Fair Web Pages
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/index_A.htm
Best site for help through out project!
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/fair.html
This is a good site explaining the parts of a
science fair project.
http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/jtindell/
A web site for children to use in setting up
their science fair project
http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral
A great site! It has info for parents, teachers,
and students. It has project ideas, research
tools, and tip sheets for all kinds of
projects.
Bringing It Together
Keys for success:
Make a time-line and stick to it.
Parental support
Organization