Monday, January 30, 2012

Science fair reminders....

The Science Fair is drawing near….

PROJECTS ARE DUE FEBRUARY 8th


Science Board



Introduction

What is the purpose of your experiment? What is your test question?

Might also need to include any background information that was needed to understand the experiment.

Hypothesis

What do you think will happen in your experiment.

Procedure

(materials and methods step: 1, 2, 3 etc)

Title of Experiment

Visuals or something to liven your experiment… maybe photos or drawings

Might also want to include your graphs or data

Data/Results: (might also include charts and graphs)

Conclusion: Analyze what your results mean? what was learned/discovered? why did you get the results you did? If something went wrong, you can also discuss that in the conclusion



Journal:

Should really be a rough draft of your board

entries should include:

-choosing project/research done

-gathering supplies

- setting up the experiment ( intro, hypothesis, procedure,

- what happened during the experiment (data/results,)

-if you had to watch your experiment over a time period you should record your data/observations

- why did you get those results? what was learned (conclusion)

* we will be presenting our boards in class on Friday (do not take them home until after you present them in class)

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