Instructions
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Instructions
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Brackets [Like these] are meant to be deleted and filled in with your own words.
Red text with dashed lines like these are hints from Mr. Stuart. You can delete them when you are ready.
Instructions
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[Title of Project]
An investigation of [topic]
By [FirstName LastName]
[ _ ] Grade, Mr. Stuart’s Science Class
Room [_]
Lorin A. Eden Elementary School
Hayward Unified School District
Spring 2021
Topic
For my science fair project this year I am investigating [Topic]. I chose this topic because [...].
[Optional Picture of Topic]
Investigable Question
Remember that you should be able to answer an investigable question with an experiment. Good questions might not necessarily be investigable.
Examples:
Hypothesis
I think that when I [ do the following …] that [____ will happen] because [...].
EXAMPLE Hypothesis: I think that when I give some plants water and some plants no water, that the plants with water will grow taller than plants that are not given water because when my parents garden they always make sure that the soil is not dry. Based on those observations, I think that water is important for plant growth.
Experimental Procedure
Write down what you plan to do in your experiment. Try to be as specific as possible! An alien from outer space should know exactly what to do.
Materials
[Optional Picture of Materials]
Video and Pictures of Experiment
You should record yourself doing at least part of the experiment and explain to the viewer what you are doing and what you notice.
You can upload your video to Flipgrid and Mr. Stuart will help you connect it to this Google Slide if you don’t already know how.
Instructions - Experimental Results
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Your results ( sometimes called data) are a really important part of your experiment. In the next green slide you will be reporting your findings in a results table.
This is an example results table from my plant experiment:
Time of Measurement | How tall the plant with water grew (millimeters) | How tall the plant without water grew (millimeters) |
First day | 0 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Second day | 0 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Third Day | 2 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Fourth Day | 3 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Fifth Day | 3 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Sixth Day | 5 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Seventh Day | 6 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Instructions - Experimental Results
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Let’s make sense of these results!
There are three columns (boxes going down), but it’s possible to have more.
Time of Measurement | How tall the plant with water grew (millimeters) | How tall the plant without water grew (millimeters) |
First day | 0 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Second day | 0 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Third Day | 2 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Fourth Day | 3 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Fifth Day | 3 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Sixth Day | 5 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Seventh Day | 6 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
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1. This column keeps track of each different measurement I took. In this case I took 7 measurements each on a different day.
2. This column tracks what happened to the first thing I was measuring. In this case how tall my plant with water grew.
3. This column tracks the second thing that I measured, in this case how tall my plant without water grew.
4… I could have more columns to track other things I was interested in (like if I tried to grow a plant with water but no soil). But in this experiment I was only measuring two things and keeping everything else the same so I only have 3 columns.
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Instructions - Experimental Results
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Anybody should be able to look at your result table and be able to tell a story about what happened in your experiment. What story can you tell from looking at the results in my table?
Time of Measurement | How tall the plant with water grew (millimeters) | How tall the plant without water grew (millimeters) |
First day | 0 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Second day | 0 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Third Day | 2 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Fourth Day | 3 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Fifth Day | 3 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Sixth Day | 5 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Seventh Day | 6 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Instructions - Experimental Results
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Here’s my story:
From looking at this table you should see that the experiment lasted seven days, and I was measuring how much each plant grew each day. The plants were exactly the same, except one got water and the other didn’t. At first neither plant seemed to be growing, but by the third day the plant with water started growing and continued to grow the rest of the week (it eventually grew 6 millimeters tall). The plant without water however did not grow.
Time of Measurement | How tall the plant with water grew (millimeters) | How tall the plant without water grew (millimeters) |
First day | 0 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Second day | 0 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Third Day | 2 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Fourth Day | 3 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Fifth Day | 3 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Sixth Day | 5 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Seventh Day | 6 millimeters | 0 millimeters |
Experimental Results
[Number of measurement] | [First thing you did] | [Second thing you did] |
[First Measurement ] | | |
[Second Measurement] | | |
[Third Measurement] | | |
[Fourth Measurement] | | |
[Fifth Measurement] | | |
[Sixth Measurement] | | |
[Seventh Measurement] | | |
[Eighth Measurement] | | |
[Ninth Measurement] | | |
[Tenth Measurement] | | |
You might have more or less rows depending on your experiment, (you’ll need at least two columns, but you can make more if you changed more than one thing)
Explaining Results
The results from my experiment show that [when I _____] that [ _______ happens]. My evidence is [use information from your data table]. This was [as I predicted / different from what I predicted] in my hypothesis.
My explanation for my results is [that _____]. My results makes me wonder what would happen [if I did ______ instead of ____]
In this slide you should talk about what your results shows. It is OK if your results doesn’t completely answer your question in the way that you expected as long as you are able to make sense of what happened.
Here you should say another question that arose while thinking about your results. Example: What would happen if I compared the seeds that I gave a regular amount of water and no water to, to seeds that I gave twice thenormal amount of water to?
Research
[Information about your topic and other experiments you read about goes here.]
Sources
In this slide you can talk about any other experiments or background information that might help explain your experimental results. Make sure to say where you got your information from in your sources (which website or book).
Conclusion
I learned [ _____________________ ] from doing this project. If I were to redo my experiment I would [ ________________ instead of ________]. To continue learning about this topic, and test my explanation, in my next experiment I would want to [_____].
[Optional Picture of yourself doing experiment]
Instructions
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Instructions
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