1. Name:___________________ Room #_____________

2. Science Fair Contract By signing below I realize I am responsible for: Paying Attention in Class Asking Questions when I don’t understand directions Turning in each assignment on its DUE DATE. Always handing in my BEST Quality Work. Planning ahead of time Finding, Borrowing, or Buying needed supplies. Asking my teacher and parents to support me. Using class time wisely to do my work. Student Signature____________________________________ Parent Signature ____________________________________

3. Deciding my Science Fair Question Topic: What area of science do you think you want to work in? Ex. Physical Science- Magnetism ___________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Problem: What question in your science topic do you want to study? (Ex. What materials are attracted to a magnet?) _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________

4. Gathering Information/ Research Once you have a question you want to study the next step is to gather information about your problem. You will have two days in the classroom to research with books, palms, and laptops. During this time you will take notes about your science topic. Your research paper should be 1-2 typed pages, 12 font, double spaced.

5. Making my Hypothesis After researching, you are an expert on your science topic and question. Now it is time to use that information and make an educated guess of what you think will happen in your experiment. (I think that copper, iron, and silver will attract magnets, I think plastic and paper will not) Hypothesis:_________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

6. Materials List EVERY material you will need to do your experiment.

7. Procedure/ Steps to your Experiment What are the exact steps you will follow in your experiment? Your directions should be so clear that someone else could read and follow them and do the same exact experiment! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

8. Data and Results List any numbers, graphs, charts, pictures, drawings, or descriptions below.

9. Conclusion Review your hypothesis. Look carefully at your data and results. Write 4-5 sentences to answer if your hypothesis was right or wrong. Why do you think it was right/wrong? You may also add what you would change if you did the experiment again. ____________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

10. Final Science Fair Report Title Page: Your name, Project title, Room number, and date. Hand written or typed (size 12, aerial) There should be a heading for each page in this report. (problem, research, hypothesis, materials, procedure, results, conclusion) Each heading should be BOLD and in size 18 font. Report is to be stapled and put into a folder, pronged report cover. You will have 2 days in the computer lab to type this report.

11. Display Board You will present your project to the class and judges using a display board. The 3 piece boards that stand up well are recommended. You will have 2 days to work on it in class, but you will most likely have to work on some of it at home. Below is an outline for you to decide how it will look.

12. My Checklist Due DateMeMs. ReardonGrade Topic Problem Research Hypothesis Materials Procedure Data/ Results Conclusion Final Report Display Board