Describe Your Big Question What are you investigating? Why did you choose this topic? What did you expect the outcome to be? See for more informationhttp://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/sciencewriting/step1.htm

Explain the Hows and Whys How did you test your hypothesis? Why did you test it that way? See for more informationhttp://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/sciencewriting/step2.htm

Present Your Information What did you find out? What might your results mean? See for more informationhttp://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/sciencewriting/step3.htm

Conclude with New Questions What was it all about? Should you keep going? What new questions do you have? If you did it again, what would you do differently? See for more informationhttp://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/sciencewriting/step4.htm

Show Your Sources Record your outside sources with a bibliography. See for more informationhttp://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/sciencewriting/step5.htm