1. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN PROJECT Are Flintstone Vitamins Pediatricians #1 choice for children’s chewable vitamins? Journey Malmborg | Science Goddess| Period 6

2. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Do more moms trust Flintstone vitamins than any other children’s vitamin? Are Flintstone vitamins Pediatricians #1 choice for children’s chewable vitamins?

3. PROJECT OVERVIEW The advertisement claims that more moms trust Flintstone vitamins than any other children’s vitamin and that Flintstone vitamins are Pediatricians #1 choice for children’s chewable vitamins. We will try to prove the companies second claim by surveying 20 pediatricians and asking if Flintstone’s vitamins are their #1 choice for chewable children’s vitamins.

4. RESEARCH Summarize your research here in three to five bullet points: – 1 st point- Most children do not need supplemental vitamins or minerals. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, a diet based on the Food Guide Pyramid provides adequate amounts of all the vitamins' a child needs.vitamins – 2 nd point - Finding your child's favorite character may make taking vitamins easy and fun. – 3 rd point - Some children — like vegetarians, or those with sensitivities to certain foods, for example — might need a daily vitamin/mineral supplement to meet their RDAs.

5. VARIABLES Controlled variables: These are the things that are kept the same throughout your experiment. – Ask the question in exactly the same way to each individual Independent variable: The one variable that you purposely change and test. – The groups receiving the survey: Pediatricians Dependent variable: The measure of change observed because of the independent variable. It is important to decide how you are going to measure the change. – The answer the person being surveyed gives.

6. HYPOTHESIS If I ask 20 random pediatricians “Are Flintstone’s vitamins your #1 choice for children’s chewable vitamins”, then at least 11 of them will say “yes”.

7. PROCEDURE 1.20 Pediatricians will be chosen at random 2.All will be asked the same question “ ” Are Flintstone’s vitamins your #1 choice for children’s chewable vitamins? No suggestions will be made by the interviewer. 3.Interviewer will record the individuals choice.

8. MATERIALS Phone Phone book Paper/Pen Computer Microsoft office soft ware

9. DATA/OBSERVATIONS It is easier to understand the data if it is put into a table or graph. Create a graph in Microsoft Excel and import it here. Make sure all data is clearly labeled.

10. CONCLUSION Type a brief summary here of what you discovered based on the results of your experiments. You need to indicate whether or not the data supports the hypothesis and explain why or why not. Do you summarize your results and use it to support the findings? Yes / No Do your conclusions state that you proved or disproved your hypothesis? (Engineering & programming projects should state whether they met their design criteria.) Yes / No If appropriate, do you state the relationship between the independent and dependent variable? Yes / No Do you summarize and evaluate your experimental procedure, making comments about its success and effectiveness? Yes / No Do you suggest changes in the experimental procedure and/or possibilities for further study? Yes / No

11. CONCLUSION Results According to my experiments, only 2 pediatricians recommended Flintstone vitamins. Conclusions My hypothesis was that Flintstone vitamins were Pediatricians #1 choice for chewable vitamins. My results do support my hypothesis. I think the tests we did went smoothly and we had no problems, except it was hard to get through to the doctor, it was always an assistant we spoke to. (Difficult to know who’s opinion you were getting.) An interesting future study might be to see if demographics would make a difference.

12. WORKS CITED http://www.babycenter.com/0_the-lowdown-on-childrens- vitamins_64355.bc http://www.babycenter.com/0_the-lowdown-on-childrens- vitamins_64355.bc http://pediatrics.about.com/cs/pharmacology/a/byb_vitamins.htm http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair- projects/project_variables.shtml http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair- projects/project_variables.shtml

13. ESSENTIAL QUESTION How is Science different from other curricular areas? Science has it’s own set of rules for answering questions and solving questions. The Scientific Method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena and acquiring new knowledge, as well as for correcting and integrating previous knowledge. It is based on gathering observable, empirical, measurable evidence, subject to specific principles of reasoning.