Wonder Notes

Wonder about many things and write those wonders down.

 

Research Idea

Turn one of your wonder ideas into a research idea to read about and develop into a project/experiment.

 

Background Research

Read about your idea.

Take notes.

Include bibliographic data (Title of text, author, copyright, page numbers read)

Notes	Title. Author. Copyright. Pages read.

 

Research Summary

Write a summary of your research

 

Possible Research question:

Write a possible research question.

 

Variables

List all your variables. These include everything about your idea&emdash;the things your are experimenting with and all the things that could effect the experiment.

 

Choose two to work with to solve your research question

Independent variable (the one you will change)

Dependent variable (the one that will respond to your change)

Control variable

(the standard measurement to which you will compare your data; you may need to conduct a your first set of trials to establish baseline data on which to compare what happens when you change the variable).

 

Constant variables

(all other variables must be kept constant--the same or your experiment is invalid)

 

Research Question

Write your research question using your independent and dependent variables: What effect does __________________ (independent variable) have on ___________________ (dependent variable)?

 

Hypothesis

Guess what you think the results will be. Write it down.