Science Fair Project Worksheet
[Click here for the K - 2 printable page.]
(Here is a link to a 3 - 5 printable page.)
Use this worksheet as a guide in writing up your project.
Do not turn this worksheet in. Directions and suggestions are given in each section. Fill in the blanks in all the boxed sections.
Copy your answers to the final draft of your science fair project.
Title – Choose a brief title for your project. Titles are often “catchy”, but do not have to be.
(You may want to wait until you have completed your experiment before giving it a title.)
The title of my project is _____________________________.
Question – What question are you trying to answer by doing your project? A statement and
not just a “yes” or a “no” should answer your question. Your question should be fairly specific. A good way to form a question is: “How will changing ________ affect _________?”
Examples:
• How will changing
the color of light plants receive affect
plant growth?
• How will changing
the amount of baking soda in cupcakes affect
cupcake height?
Remember, you must have at least one variable (something that changes), and a control (something that stays the same).
My Question is ___________________________________ .
Introduction – This section talks about why you chose this experiment, who helped you,
and what special research did you do to learn more about this experiment. This section should be 3 or more sentences.
I chose this experiment because _____________________________
I got help from ___________________________________________
I learned more about ______________________________________
Hypothesis – This is a guess of
what you think will happen and
why it will happen based on
your research on your variable. A good way to write a hypothesis is:
”I think that _________________ because _____________________________.
Examples:
• I think that
plants that receive white light will grow taller and fuller than plants that just get red or blue light because
I read that plants need lots of sunlight for growth.
• I think that
putting more baking soda in cupcakes will make cupcakes taller because
baking soda produces gas that makes the cupcakes rise.
My Hypothesis: I think that _______________________________________
because ____________________________________________________
Materials – List all the materials you will use to perform the experiment. This is similar to
the ingredient list of a recipe. More detail is better! Another person should be able to do your experiment based on your list of materials.
These are the items I need to perform my experiment are:
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Procedure – Write a step-by-step guide for doing the experiment. This is similar to the
instructions part of a recipe. The more detail the better. Another person should be able to do your experiment based on the instructions in your procedure. You should repeat your experiment 2 or more times to see if you get the same results.
The steps to doing my experiment are:
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2. ________________________________________________________________
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Feel free to add more steps if you need to.
On your display board, you may include photographs or drawings of the items in your experiment.
Results – Record the results of your experiment. Make a chart or a graph to make it easier
for a person to see what you observed during your experiment. Write a paragraph that talks about the results in your charts and/or graphs. Remember to do your experiment more than once. On your display board, you may include photographs or drawings of the results of your experiment. It may be helpful to show “before” and “after” pictures in some cases.
Chart of Results from Trial 1
Chart of Results from Trial 2
Chart of Results from Trial 3
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Feel free to do more trials and chart the results.
Are your results consistent? If yes, what is the trend?
Example:
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When the plants with under the white light grew taller than the plants under the red or blue light
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The more baking soda I used, the taller the cupcake.
If there is no trend, say that your results do not show any trend.
Example:
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My results were inconclusive because two of the three plants with the white light grew taller than the plants with the red and blue light. But one of the plants with the red light was taller than all the plants with the white light. Also, a couple of the plants with the blue light were taller than the red light plants, but shorter than the white light plants.
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The heights of the cupcakes did not vary consistently with the amount of the baking soda used.
My results show
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Conclusion – What did you learn from the experiment? Tell whether your results show that
your hypothesis was right or wrong. How do your results show that your hypothesis was right or wrong? If your hypothesis was wrong, why do you think you guessed wrong? Did anything go wrong when you did your experiment? What do you think you can change to make the experiment better? Who might benefit from what you have learned in your experiment?
My results show that my hypothesis was
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To make this experiment better, I can
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The people who may benefit from what I have learned in this experiment are
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because_____________________________________________________________________
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