Resources for elementary and middle school science educators.

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Independent Investigation

Research is to see what everybody else has seen,
and to think what nobody else has thought.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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General Information:

Independent Investigation

Journal Cover

Journal Pages

Rubrics:

PowerPoint Rubric

Oral Report Rubric

Written Report Rubric

Part 1: Asking the question or defining the problem

First draft - question

First Revision - Question

Part 2: Reviewing the literature & developing a hypothesis

Library / Computer Research

First draft - literature review

First Revision - literature review

First draft - hypothesis

First Revision - hypothesis

Part 3: Designing an experiment to test your hypothesis

First draft - experimental design / procedure

First Revision - procedure

First draft - materials list

First Revision - materials list

Part 4: Conducting the experiment & collecting data

First draft - chart or table

Part 5: Analyzing data & drawing conclusions

First draft - data analysis

First draft - graph

First draft - conclusion

Excel spreadsheet graph example

Part 6: Communicating results

PowerPoint template

Communicating With PowerPoint - Design Guidelines

The Formal Report

Formal Copy of the Written Lab Report

First draft - abstract

Example of Formal Report - Pages that are not numbered

Example of Formal Report - Pages that are numbered