How To Do A Science Fair ProjectR.L. Thornton Elementary School

Clara Daniels, Principal

Natalie Crittendon, Science Fair Coordiantor

Science Fair Projects Must Be EXPERIMENTS!

An experiment is a test to find outsomething.

Experiments are repeated 3 times.

Beware

Do not make a volcano or the Solar

System. These are display projects and

do not answer a scientific question!X X

Scoring

Judges will not score projects that do not

follow the scientific method.

Steps to the Scientific MethodQuestion / ProblemHypothesisMaterialsVariables (4th and 5th)ProcedureData / ResultsConclusion

Question / Problem

What do I want to find out?What do I want to learn?

?

Hypothesis

Based on what I already know, what do I

think will happen? This is also called a

prediction.

Materials

This is what you will use to conduct your

experiment.

VariablesThe variable is the one factor I wish to

change (or use in different amounts).Everything is given the exact same

conditions except for one factor. This factor is my variable .

I need to explain things I did to make it a controlled experiment.

Variable are things that have an effect on the experiment.

Procedure

These are the steps that I follow to do my

experiment. The steps have to be numbered.

Data / Results

Results-This is what actually happened

during this experiment.

Data-This is where I show the data in

the form of a graph or chart.

Conclusion

What did I learn?Was my prediction correct or should it be rejected?

If I did this experiment again what would I do differently?