R.L. Thornton Elementary School
Clara Daniels, Principal
Natalie Crittendon, Science Fair Coordiantor
Science Fair Projects Must Be
EXPERIMENTS!
An experiment is a test to find out
something.
Experiments are repeated 3 times.
Beware
Do not make a volcano or the Solar
System. These are display projects and
do not answer a scientific question!
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Scoring
Judges will not score projects that do not
follow the scientific method.
Steps to the Scientific Method
 Question / Problem
 Hypothesis
 Materials
 Variables (4th and 5th)
 Procedure
 Data / Results
 Conclusion
Question / Problem
 What do I want to find out?
 What do I want to learn?
?
Hypothesis
Based on what I already know, what do I
think will happen? This is also called a
prediction.
Materials
This is what you will use to conduct your
experiment.
Variables
 The variable is the one factor I wish to change
(or use in different amounts).
 Everything is given the exact same conditions
except for one factor. This factor is my variable .
 I need to explain things I did to make it a
controlled experiment.
 Variable are things that have an effect on the
experiment.
Procedure
These are the steps that I follow to do my
experiment. The steps have to be numbered.
Data / Results
 Results
-This is what actually happened during
this experiment.
 Data
-This is where I show the data in the
form of a graph or chart.
Conclusion
 What did I learn?
 Was my prediction correct or should it
be rejected?
 If I did this experiment again what
would I do differently?