Guide

 

                Your project grade in science for the first two trimesters of this school year will come from completing three stages of scientific investigation.  This effort will, hopefully, result in your participation in LPDV’s 2010 science fair.  The documentation to successfully complete these stages has been given to you in a folder named “StudentFiles-EmpStudy-2010.”  (The entire empirical study project is to be done in English.)

 

Here is a listing of the goals of each stage, along with the files you will find in the folder.

 

I.  Stage One:  Completed in the third or fourth week of February.  First Trimester.                     20 points

 

Goals	Resources in directory
a) Review the definition of science, science method, and scientific variables	HowScienceWorks-StingExample.pps Bug_Spray_Product_Test
b) Develop a proposal for an empirical study	Science Fair Ideas.doc
c)  Find reliable reference information on your topic of investigation	Bibliography-WorksCited.doc
d) Write a formal empirical study proposal based on your preliminary research	Stage1-Proposal-2010.doc

           

 

II.  Stage Two:  Completed by the end of first trimester (last week of April).  First Trimester.     50 points

 

Goals	Resources in directory
a) Form a research team with other students based on an approved proposal	Stage2-IntroHypExpDesign-2009.doc   Bibliography-WorksCited.doc
b) Conduct in-depth research on topic
c)  Refine the Hypothesis
d) Write the Introduction and Hypothesis
e) Develop the Experimental Design
f) Write the proposal for the Experimental Design

 

 

III.  Stage Three:  To be completed by August 7, Science Fair day.  Second Trimester.             100 points

 

Goals	Resources in directory
a) Conduct and Document the Experiment	Stage3-ResDiscConPresent-2010.doc
b) Collect and Analyze Data
c)  Interpret the Results to Support or Reject the Hypothesis	SampleGraphs.xls
d) Write the Results, Discussion, Conclusion and Abstract sections of the study
e) Prepare a Tri-fold and PowerPoint presentation to present the study	PowerPointStarter-LPDV2007.ppt
f)  Participate in the Science Fair LPDV 2010	JudgeScoreSheet-09.doc

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