Writing Guidelines

Science Investigative

Project Report Writing Guidelines

1. What do you want to find out? (Aim/Purpose/Research question)

2. What is the tentative explanation of your research question? (Hypothesis)

3. In an investigation, there is only one variable to be changed.

Which variable will you change in this investigation? (Independent Variable)(Aim/Purpose/Research question)

2. What is the tentative explanation of your research question? (Hypothesis)

3. In an investigation, there is only one variable to be changed.

Which variable will you change in this investigation? (Independent Variable)What is the tentative explanation of your research question? (Hypothesis)

3. In an investigation, there is only one variable to be changed.

Which variable will you change in this investigation? (Independent Variable)In an investigation, there is only one variable to be changed.

Which variable will you change in this investigation? (Independent Variable)Independent Variable)

4. All the other variables must be kept constant. What are a few important variables that will

affect the results greatly? (Controlled Variables)All the other variables must be kept constant. What are a few important variables that will

affect the results greatly? (Controlled Variables)(Controlled Variables)

5. What results will you measure? (Dependent Variable)Dependent Variable)

6. What are the materials and apparatus that you will need to carry out the investigation

(Materials and Apparatus)

7. What are the steps that you will take to carry out the investigation? (Procedure)

Step 1: ______________________________________________________________

Step 2: ______________________________________________________________

8. How are data collected? (Data collection)Procedure)

Step 1: ______________________________________________________________

Step 2: ______________________________________________________________

8. How are data collected? (Data collection)(Data collection)

9. How to show that the experimentation was carried out as reported? (Evidence)(Evidence)

Use of photograph, audio or video recording.

10. How to organize and present the data collected? (Results)(Results)

*The data can be presented in the form of tables and/or graphs.

11. What do the data mean? (Data Analysis)

12. What can you deduce from the discussion of your data analysis? (Conclusion)

Does it support your hypothesis? If not, what would you do?

13. How can you apply what you have learnt to everyday life? (Application)

14. What are the limitations of your experimentation? If you were to work on the same topic

again, would you conduct the experimentation differently? Why? (Limitation and further

improvement)