The Scientific Method and Science Fairs
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Step One - Choose a Topic
What are your interests?
Types of Projects
Step Two - Research
Types of Research
Taking Good Notes
Take the quiz on Steps 1 and 2
Step Three - Hypothesis
Step Four – Experimental Design
Build it like a recipe
What is your test variable?
Step Five – Just Do It!
Follow the experimental design.
Take accurate observation notes.
Step Six - Results
Graphing
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Bar Graph
Line Graph
Circle Graph
Area Graph
X Y Graph
Take the quiz on Steps 5 and 6
Step Seven - Conclusions
Was your hypothesis true or false?
Writing up the report
Science Fair Displays
Take the quiz on Steps 7 and Science Fair Displays
Test your knowledge - do you remember the steps?
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Scientific Method Steps 5 and 6 Quiz
1. Why is it a good idea to do your experiment more than once?
Why not? You will have so much fun doing it!
If you perform your experiment only once, or if you use only one test subject you might get some results that aren't what they truly should be
It's more likely that you'll get an A.
2. As you conduct your experiment you should?
keep a journal and record what happens daily
take pictures without your face in them and draw pictures of what happened
all of the above
3. You have conducted your experiment. It's now time to?
read through your notes and construct a graph to analyze what happened
Scream - I'M DONE! HOORAY!
Start designing your three panel display board
4. When you are trying to compare parts of a whole, which graph is best to use?
Line graph
Circle graph
Bar graph
Score =
Correct answers:
Step 7 - Conclusions