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Science Project Timeline

Science Project Timeline. Allowing Adequate Time For Quality Results. Pacing Goals. Know your district and teacher deadlines Complete majority of project before winter break Start in the summer if possible Allow time for mid-course corrections, modifications, and catastrophes

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Science Project Timeline

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  1. Science Project Timeline Allowing Adequate Time For Quality Results

  2. Pacing Goals • Know your district and teacher deadlines • Complete majority of project before winter break • Start in the summer if possible • Allow time for mid-course corrections, modifications, and catastrophes • Allow time for additional data collection • Stay on course!

  3. Laboratory Notebook • Permanent place of record, evidence, credibility, authenticity, authority • Includes: • Ideas and thinking • Measurements, counts • Sketches & pictures (digital) • Charts & graphs • Conversations

  4. Lab Notebook • Try to be neat with entries but “used” look it necessary for authenticity • Don’t erase • Draw line through errors • Number and date each page upon entry • Plan for notebook to be displayed with project • Be sure your display and answers during interview match data in notebook

  5. Week 1 Identify a Problem to Investigate

  6. Identifying a Problem • Most difficult part of the project • Brainstorm area(s) of high interest & rank • Generate questions about topic • Push for problems that can be answered through measurement or counting • Consider possibilities close to home • Consider level of support at home, school, business and/or industry

  7. Example Problem • I wonder if temperature affects the way a rubber ball bounces?

  8. Example Problem • I wonder if the algae growing in the culvert behind my house would make good fertilizer. • Why? • Heard about using mulch to put nutrients back into soil

  9. Your turn… • Identify some areas of interest • I wonder if:

  10. Week 2 Researching Your Topic

  11. Researching Your Topic • Visit: • School, local, college, university libraries • Resources • Encyclopedias, textbooks, general science magazines, science journals and periodicals • Internet searches • Interviews (in person or by phone) • Previous science projects • Science experiences in school

  12. Your turn… • What sources do you have available? • Where? • Who?

  13. Week 3 Introduction

  14. Draft Introduction Section • Statement of problem • Background/Literature review • Summarize all you know that is connected to your problem. • Hypothesis

  15. Example Hypothesis • Plants decompose into nutrients for other plants. (mulching) • Algae should do the same. • H: If algae releases nutrients during decomposition, then plants grown in soil mixed with algae will grow better than plants grown in soil without algae.

  16. Week 4 - Experimental Design • Materials • Take pictures! • Procedure • Manipulated or independent variable • Resulting or dependent variable • Go for large sample size – why? • Plan for 3 or more trials – why?

  17. Collecting Data • What type of data will be collected? • counting • measuring • How will data be organized? • Tables • Graphs – bar, line, pie

  18. Week 5 - Science Fair Forms • Source: • Teacher • http://www.dallassciencefair.org/ • Complete at a minimum: • Forms 1, 1A, Research Plan Attachment, 1B

  19. Week 6 Start Your Experiment Or Let the fun begin!

  20. Weeks 7-12 - Experiment • Be faithful to your data collecting • Be faithful to your record keeping • Don’t worry about lab notebook getting dirty! • Plan for trips, holidays • Don’t be afraid to learn from early mistakes and modify your experiment

  21. Week 13 • Using spreadsheet, organize your data • Time of purely objective analysis • What literally happened? • State the obvious • What trends are evident? • State the obvious

  22. Week 14 - Wrapping It Up • Results • Conclusion • References/Bibliography • Abstract

  23. Week 15 • Prepare finished version of entire research paper • Spell check!

  24. Week 16 • Complete a diagram of your project • Strive for ease of viewing & understanding • Simple and well organized • Should help you flow through interview • Use graph paper • Draw to scale • Better to make mistakes in the “virtual” world

  25. Title Purpose Conclusion Procedure Data Hypothesis • ErrorAnalysis Pictures TablesandGraphs Variables • FutureApplications Materials Abstract (inframe) One example of a display

  26. Week 17 • Putting your display together • Rough or temporary version • Look at it for awhile • Which pictures, charts, & graphs are best, most dramatic?

  27. Week 18 • Permanent or final display • Practice fielding questions

  28. Now you are ready for the fair!

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