Author: Nick Lee

Homework task: to carry out an investigation at home and make a poster to show what you did and found out. This is your chance to find the answer to something you have always wondered about! Choose a question you would like to investigate by carrying out an experiment and follow the steps below. The top three from each class will get to present their work to the rest of the school on Thursday 16th May. Good luck!

State the Purpose of the Project - What do you want to find out? Write a statement that describes what you want to do.

START: Choose a Topic - Make sure that your topic interests you! The best topic is the one that you are excited about or is something you’ve always wondered about .

Prepare Your Report - Make your display, write your report or work on your presentation; whatever is required for your final project report. Remember to make your graphs and other visuals clear, and include enough information to support your conclusion. It is always a good idea to let someone unfamiliar with your experiment take a look at your report, to make sure that everything is stated clearly.

Make a Hypothesis - Say what you think will happen and why you think this.

Design Your Experiment - Make a step-by-step list of what you will do to answer your question. Remember:
select only one thing to change (variable)
state all the other variable which you will keep the same
explain what you will measure to get your results.

Do the Experiment and Record Data - Carry out your investigation and record your measurements in a table.

Draw Conclusions - Using your experimental data and observations, try to answer your original questions. Is your hypothesis correct? If your hypothesis is not correct, don’t worry! State that your hypothesis is not correct, and then state the conclusion that your data and observations lead you to.

Summarize Results - Write a sentence or two to describe what your results show. You could draw a bar chart or line graph to look for patterns.

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