Name____________________________________ Period____________

Creating an Experiment
The Problem: What do we want to find out?

Choosing Variables:
Independent Variable(s)
We will Change

Our Control

Dependent Variable
We will Measure

What will stay the same

(and not affect the outcome)

Creating a Hypothesis: What do we think will happen?

When we change

What will happen to

My Prediction:
I think that if______________________________________________
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then______________________________________________________
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Creating an Experiment: Designing a fair test of your hypothesis
The equipment we will need:

What we are going to do: Experiment Procedure

Recording the Results:

The normal conditions (Control)

What you Changed(Independent)

What you measured (Dependent)

Graphing the Results

Title:_____________________________________________________

Drawing a Conclusion: Finding Patterns in Results

When we changed

The
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This means that my prediction was _______________________________

As a result of this experiment I learned that

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Questions that have arisen as a result of this experiment
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Possible sources of error in this experiment (not necessarily what you did
wrong, but what kinds of things affected the outcome?)
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Things that I could have improved in this experiment
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Analysis Questions: