1. Scientific Research

2. Effective Research Papers
Summarizes the theory behind your experiment
Conduct research to predict what will occur in your experiment and use that research to understand what happened in your experiment
Include the techniques and materials used in conducting your experiment
Frequency can predict reliability

3. What Makes a Good Research Paper?
For a Good Research Paper, You Should Answer "Yes" to Every Question
Have you defined all important terms?
Yes / No
Have you clearly answered all your research questions?
Does your background research help you to make a prediction of what will occur in your experiment? Will you have the knowledge to understand what causes the behavior you observe?
Have you included all the relevant math that you understand?
Have you referenced all information copied from another source and put any phrases, sentences, or paragraphs you copied in quotation marks?
If you are doing an engineering or programming project, have you defined your target user and answered questions about user needs, products that meet similar needs, design criteria, and important design tradeoffs?

4. Do’s Take notes as you are researching Use peer-reviewed articles
Be objective
Use correct grammar
Use complete sentences
Give credit where credit is due
Use at least 3 peer reviewed articles

5. Don’ts Try to Reinvent the wheel Plagiarize
Use previously conducted experiments as background information, but don’t…
Plagiarize
Use I or We. Your paper is formal and does not include words to describe your opinions.
Leave any information out or change your results
Science is about learning from the mistakes and discoveries that we made

6. Correct the following paragraph from a research paper: Which battery is better?
Hypothesis As I test for increasingly long periods of time, the Energizer AA battery will maintain a higher voltage than other batteries. Background Research Batteries come in many shapes and sizes. Some are no larger than a pill, while others are too heavy to lift, but most batteries have one thing in common – they store chemical energy and change it into electric energy. The cell are the basic unit that produces electrisity. A battery has 2 or more cells, but people often use the word battery when taking about a single cell, too, like a dry cell. A dime-sized battery is a cell. Cells act like pumps to force electrons to flow along conductors (DK Science 150). I think that if we compare these batteries and cells by testing them we can determine which is better.

7. Format 1 inch margins Double spaced
12 point font, Times New Roman for text
For figures, use Arial 12 point font
Head each section of your paper using the correct organization order
Label each section
Use APA
Google purdue OWL apa for guidance

8. Resources Galileo Britannica teen New York Public Library
Our library’s website has several resources: Use the science fair tab and the science websites tab
Galileo
Resource for peer-reviewed articles
On the bottom of the page, click galileo teen
Britannica teen
New York Public Library

9. Example
Conduct Research on the one of the following topics using Galileo High School
Come up with at least 6 sources and a hypothesis for your mock paper.
Take notes in your INB
When you are done, you may continue your research on your science fair topic.
Topics
Which AA battery is better?
How will soda brand effect the rate at which Mentos will dissolve?