To help guide you...

If you missed yesterday, or in case you forgot, here is an outline of what we discussed in class to help you get set up for the first few steps of the science fair.
The most important place to start is to figure out your variables - Independent (what you change) and Dependent (what you observe or measure).  Once you have those figured out, you'll be in good shape for forming and creating the rest of your experiment.
Let's move on to your question.  Your question needs to be:

• Labeled
• Clear
• have your independent and dependent variable that you'll be testing

Your hypothesis is your prediction of what you think will happen in the experiment based on your knowledge about the subject.  Your hypothesis needs to be:

• Labeled 
• Clear
• Predicts the results based on your variables
• have an element of reason behind it

On the hypothesis, most 8th graders won't go far enough.  Look at this example hypothesis:

I think that the red truck will have the fastest speed because it is the lightest in weight.

Many students will stop with completing the orange writing, but you need to take it a step further to add in the reasoning behind your thoughts.

Finally, your procedure needs to be:

• in numbered, small and direct steps
• avoid using pronouns - it, they or thing if you don't know the name of something
• include all step, don't skip any no matter how tiny they might be
• A diagram of your procedure step-up, labeled to give people an instant visual

There are two goals for this week:

1. work on completing an easybib for your resources
2. complete the research proposal form, have it signed by your parents, and returned by Thursday!