Monday, March 16, 2009

Scientific Method

Your Project should include the Scientific Method. You should use this Method when you are doing your experiments. Please include these steps in your Written Report and your Visual Presentation.
Problem: Question you want to answer.
Clear and Informed Hypothesis: What you think the answer to the problem is.
Materials: What you used to answer problem (supplies, etc).
Procedure: Steps you take to answer the problem (Step by step directions, Variables, controls).
Results: Answer the problem, reported in an organized manner, charts, graphs, and diagrams.
Conclusion:WHY you got the results you did, NOT if your hypothesis was correct, it may support NOT prove, NOT your results in sentence form (explain).
Sources: You must include at least exact and reliable sources (sources need to be the exact web address, Exact book title AND author).

Independent makes the change, dependent is what gets changed
Example: If you are observing how the amount of sunlight affects plant growth. The dependent variable is the plants growth, which is dependent of the independent variable, and the independent variable is the amount of sunlight.