1. SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT Project title Your name | Your teacher’s name | Your school

2. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Type your question here. (This is the question that your experiment answers.)

3. RESEARCH Summarize your research here in three to five significant facts: – 1 st point – 2 nd point – 3 rd point – 4 th point – 5 th point Citations (your sources of where you found the information) Include Author, Title of the work, Year published, and page # – 1 st source – 2 nd source

4. HYPOTHESIS Based on the research you have done, you will be writing an answer or solution – your best educated guess – to your question. Always write down your hypothesis before you begin your experiment. Use If (know) then (expect) because (connection to research) format.

5. PROCEDURE: MATERIALS Type a detailed list of the items you needed to complete your experiments. Be specific about the amounts used.

6. PROCEDURE: STEPS List all of the steps used in completing your experiment. Remember to number your steps. Extra: Add photos of your experiments.

7. VARIABLES Constants: These are the things that are kept the same throughout your experiment. Controlled variables: What you compare your final results to. Independent (manipulated) variable: The one variable that you purposely change and test. Dependent (measured) variable: The measure of change observed because of the independent variable. It is important to decide how you are going to measure the change.

8. DATA/OBSERVATIONS Write in declarative sentences what actually happened.

9. DATA/OBSERVATIONS It is easier to understand the data if it is put into a table or graph.. Make sure all data and units are clearly labeled.

10. DATA/OBSERVATIONS Photos/illustrations are also very useful

11. CONCLUSION Type a brief summary here of what you discovered based on the results of your experiments. You need to: 1) answer the question posed in the problem and 2) indicate whether or not the data supports the hypothesis and explain why or why not.