How to Make an Easy Science Project
Good science projects make use of scientific methodologies. Here are some tips to make your project easy to carry out.
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You Will Need
- Project idea
- Background research
- Hypothesis
- Experiment
- Data analysis
- Narrow focus (optional)
- Detailed notes (optional)
Steps
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Step 1
Select a simple project idea
Select a simple project idea. The idea will often arise as a question you've asked that you must test in order to find the answer.
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Keep your idea narrowly focused. Otherwise the project will be too open-ended.
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Step 2
Perform background research
Perform background research about your idea. Learn the core ideas and vocabulary.
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Step 3
Develop an hypothesis
Develop a testable hypothesis. The hypothesis should be an educated guess about something that could be observed in an experiment.
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Step 4
Design and perform an experiment
Design and carry out a simple experiment to test the hypothesis.
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Keep careful notes about what you do and what you observe during the experiment.
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Step 5
Analyze your data
Analyze your data using the background information you gathered earlier and draw a conclusion.
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The word science comes from the Latin word for "to know."
