HELP MS. B WITH HER SCIENCE PROJECT A PRESENTATION BY MS. B

Does touching bread with your hands make it mold faster? ■Turn this into a testable question! –Must be specific. –Must make a comparison. –Must tell you what we are measuring! –May not use the words “best, better, worst,” or other vague descriptors! –Stay away from questions that ask for “Yes/No” answers.

New Question: ■What is the one and only independent variable in this new question? ■What is the one and only dependent variable in this question? (That’s the thing you study!) ■What things should we keep the same (controlled variables) so that the experiment is fair?

Experiment Procedure: ■Describe the steps to an experiment that would help answer our new, testable question.

Data Collection: ■What would the data we’d collect look like!?