Science Fair Project Place title of your project here THE DRAGONS

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Science Fair Project(Place title of your project
here)THE DRAGONS

• Your name should be here

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Problem

• State the Purpose of the Project here
• Write a statement that describes what you want to
  do. Use your observations and questions to write
  the statement.

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Identify Variables

• Based on your gathered information, make an
  educated guess about what types of things affect
  the system you are working with.

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Hypothesis Statement

• Form a Hypothesis
• A hypothesis is a question which has been
  reworded into a form that can be tested by an
  experiment.
  
• There is usually one hypothesis for each
  question you have.
  
• You must do at least one experiment to test
  each hypothesis. This is a very important step.

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Design Experiments to Test Your Hypothesis

• For an experiment to give answers you can
  trust, it must have a "control." A control is a
  neutral "reference point" for comparison that
  allows you to see what changing a variable does
  by comparing it to not changing anything.
• Experiments are often done many times to
  guarantee that what you observe is reproducible,
  or to obtain an average result.

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Some Guidelines for Experimental Procedures

• Select only one thing to change in each
  experiment. Things that can be changed are called
  variables.
  
• Change something that will help you answer
  your questions. The procedure must tell how you
  will change this one thing.
  
• The procedure must explain how you will
  measure the amount of change.  Each experiment
  should have a "control" for comparison that you
  can see what the change actually did.

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Materials and Equipment

• Make a list of the things you need to do the
  experiment, and describe their preparation.

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Experiments and Data

• As you do experiments, record all numerical
  measurements made.
  
• If you are not making any measurements, you
  probably are not doing an experimental science
  project.

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Your Observations and Calculations

• Observations can be written descriptions of
  what you noticed during an experiment, or
  problems encountered.
  
• Keep careful notes of everything you do and
  everything that happens.
  
• Do any calculations needed from your raw data
  to obtain the numbers you need to draw your
  conclusions.
  

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Lessons Learned

• Draw Conclusions
• Using the trends in your experimental data and
  your experimental observations, try to answer
  your original questions.
  
• Other Things You Can Mention in the Conclusion
  
  
• If your hypothesis is not correct, what could be
  the answer to your question?
  
• Summarize any difficulties or problems you had
  doing the experiment.
  
• Do you need to change the procedure and repeat
  your experiment?
  
• What would you do different next time?
• List other things you learned

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BibliographyA bibliography is an alphabetical
list of all the sources used in your research.
Sources are alphabetized by author or by title
if no author is given.

• Books One Author Hoving, Thomas. Tutankhamun.
  New York Simon and Schuster, 1978.
  
• More than One Author Cooper, Robert K. and
  Leslie L. Cooper. Low-Fat Living. Emmaus, PA
  Rodale Press, 1996.
  
• No Author Given The Amazing Universe.
  Washington, DC National Geographic Society,
  1991.
  
• PERIODICALS Begley, Sharon. "A Healthy Dose of
  Laughter." Newsweek 4 Oct. 1987 65.
  
• "A Walk Across America Part II." National
  Geographic August, 1979 52.
  
• PERIODICALS ONLINE "Human Cloning?".  Maclean's
  28 December 1998 110.  Online Available
  http//nettrekker.com           March 21, 2000.
  
• NEWSPAPER Collins, Glenn. "Single Father
  Survey." New York Times 21 November 1986 20.
  
• "Low Cholesterol Level Key." Providence
  Journal-Bulletin 24 November 1987 A6.

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Samples continued

• ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES Print and CD-ROM "Animal
  Rights." World Book Encyclopedia. 1990 edition.
  
• Stemple, James. "Solar Energy." Book of Popular
  Science. 1990.
  
• "Wyoming." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.
  CD-ROM, 1996 edition.
  
• PAMPHLET (Usually the same as book with no
  author given) Smoking and Your Lungs.
  Providence, Rhode Island American Lung
  Association, 1991.
• ONLINE SERVICES and the INTERNET Gordon,
  Daniel. "Acid Rain." Compton's Living
  Encyclopedia. Online America Online. Mar. 6,
  1997.
• "Plant Extracts."  Online Available
  http//www.sciences.com/scidata/edu.html 
  February 23, 1997.
  
• Other examples Research Central

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Required Sources

• One Media Center Book
• One Media Center Reference Source
• One Online Encyclopedia
• One Periodical online from Galileo Searchasaurus
  Plus
  
• One SIRS Article from Galileo
• One website obtained from Galileo or Nettrekker
• One website from Google with a filled out
  evaluation.

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Save your work

• Look for interesting pictures for your slides and
  save them to the folder on the Macs LaCie d
  drive or the PCs Patron drive.
  
• Take notes from this work for your slides by
  typing in Word or copying and pasting from a web
  site. BeWARE of plagiarism (put notes in your
  own words no copying word for word!)

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Are you ready to conquer your fears?
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Can you find these in the Media Center?

• Card catalog? HMS
• Magazines?
• Non-Fiction Books?
• Reference Encylcopedias?
• Reference Science Sets?
• Your Subject?
• Galileo-dont forget your password?
• NetTrekker-dont forget your login?
• Google-best place for images on the web?
• Where to save your work?

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Question What would be worse than being covered
with 50 tarantulas?

Look for interesting pictures for your slides as
you go along!