Step 1 : Pick a Topic
Go to this web page for a list of topics. http://www.juliantrubin.com/branchesofsciencefair.html
If you have another Idea, email Ms. Dickinson (high school/middle school) or Mrs. Harris (elementary school)
Go to this web page for a list of topics. http://www.juliantrubin.com/branchesofsciencefair.html
If you have another Idea, email Ms. Dickinson (high school/middle school) or Mrs. Harris (elementary school)
Step 2: Research your Topic
You need to collect some background information about your topic so you can perform a good experiment.
You need to collect some background information about your topic so you can perform a good experiment.
Step 3: Develop a question or claim (Hypothesis)
You may have already had a question in mind. Something like:
Can plants from my backyard grow in salt water?
Hypothesis: If I water a group of daisies with salt water they will only grow half as fast as plants watered with tap water.
Claim: A statement of a student’s understanding about a phenomenon or about the results of an investigation
- A one-sentence answer to the question you investigated
- It answers, what can you conclude?
- It should not start with yes or no.
- It should describe the relationship between dependent and independent variables.
Step 4: Evidence: Scientific data used to support the claim
Evidence must be:
If you are performing an experiment, this is where you come up with a specific experiment to test your claim.
This is where you come up with a procedure to test your hypothesis and carry out the testing to collect data.
This is the fun part !!!!
Evidence must be:
- Sufficient—Use enough evidence to support the claim.
- Appropriate—Use data that support your claim. Leave out information that doesn’t support the claim.
- Qualitative, Quantitative, or a combination of both.
If you are performing an experiment, this is where you come up with a specific experiment to test your claim.
This is where you come up with a procedure to test your hypothesis and carry out the testing to collect data.
This is the fun part !!!!
Step 5: Reasoning: Ties together the claim and the evidence
- Shows how or why the data count as evidence to support the claim.
- Provides the justification for why this evidence is important to this claim.
- Includes one or more scientific principles that are important to the claim and evidence.
Collect your data and put it in graphs or tables to organize and display.
Draw a conclusion
You must decide if your experiment supports your hypothesis. Your conclusion will start off as:
"My experiment supports my hypothesis because..."
or
"My experiment does not support my hypothesis because..."
Step 6: Make your Presentation Board
The format you will follow is at the right ------------------------------------------------------------>
The format you will follow is at the right ------------------------------------------------------------>
Alyssa Quillan, MacKenzie Cramer and Cierra Mason presented their project with this great example of a well done display board.
Still have Questions? Check out this website for more help: http://www.juliantrubin.com/fairguide/displayboard.html
We have added a new section to the display that gets you to think about how your project is related to the New York State Learning Standards. Follow these Steps:
- You will need to open the file below and print it.
- Fill in the checkboxes that are related to your project. If you can't print it - ask your teacher for a copy
- Attach the form to the back of your display.
- Go to the "Contacts" page for help.
This is the Rubric used by the Judges to score projects.
Have your parents print a copy and use it to score your presentation a few days prior to the STEAM Fair.
Have your parents print a copy and use it to score your presentation a few days prior to the STEAM Fair.
STEAM Standards | |
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Judges Rubric | |
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