Energy EXPERIMENT TIMELINE

Assignment Assignment Description Days to complete In Class Due Date Applications due 1/13/12 Projects for 46 must be done by Feb 21, and 7-8 by March 5 You may want to encourage your students to enter the George Washington Carver Science Fair. http://www.temple.edu/carversciencefair/ Projects for 4-6th grade fair must be delivered to Academy of Natural Sciences on Tuesday Feb. 21, 2012 Judging is on Wednesday Feb.22, 2012 Projects for 7 and 8th must be delivered to Temple University on Monday March 5, 2012 Judging is on Tuesday March 6, 2012 Have your students narrow down an area of interest for their project by reviewing materials provided. Students should pick their topic by due date. Topics must relate to Energy. For example: Student might pick the general topic of Wind Energy. Students must narrow their focus down to a specific question that they will be investigating in the project. For example: If I vary the 22 days length of the blades of a windmill, will it turn at different rates? Purpose: write 1-3 sentences describing what you want to find out: The purpose of this project is to find out if the length of the blades on a windmill affect the amount of energy produced. I want to know if longer blades turn faster than shorter blades. The purpose of the Research Paper is to provide information to help understand why the experiment turns out the way it does. This should be about a paragraph long. It should include: The history of similar experiments or inventions. Definitions of all important words and concepts that describe the experiment. Answers to all the background research plan questions. 12 days Mathematical formulas, if any, that are needed to describe the results of the experiment. The Bibliography is a list of the sources that will be used to answer the research questions. Source Requirement: at least 3 sources. Please remind your students that GOOGLE IS NOT A REFERENCE. Students need to reference where they go to from their Google Search. Students need to state a hypothesis. A hypothesis is a guess as to the outcome of the experiment. Put the hypothesis in the form of an If then statement If I __________ then I think_ Example: If the blades of the windmill are 10 centimeters long, then I think the windmill will spin the fastest. A detailed list of the materials that will be used to conduct the experiment and the detailed steps that will be followed while

City Science Fair Application OPTIONAL

Topic Selection

Title in the form of a Question and purpose of experiment

12/22/11

Bibliography & Research Paper

1/12/12

1/21/12

Hypothesis

10 days

Materials and Procedures

conducting the experiment.

Conducting the Experiment Results and Data Analysis with Graphs Charts and Diagrams

There is ample time here to allow the students to do multiple runs of their experiments. Some experiments might require more time. Minimum Trials: 3 runs of experiment. If students are working with plants, they should have 3 plants for each variable tested Results listed in a chart. The analysis of the experimental data. A summary of the findings of the experiment including charts, graphs and diagrams. Conclusion: An explanation of the results of the experiment. Example: My results support my hypothesis. I found that blades that are 10 centimeters long turn at the greatest speed. Blades shorter than 10 centimeters and blades longer than 10 centimeters turned the windmill slower OR My results do not support my hypothesis. I thought blades that were 10 centimeters long would be the best, but they were not. As you can see from my data chart blades that were 12 centimeters made the windmill spin faster. My research on this topic indicated that there is a definite length that is best for windmill blades, and any more or less does not increase energy production Further Considerations: Tell how you might take your experiment to the next step. Also include what variable you would change if you could do the experiment again. Example: If I could do this experiment again, the variable I would change would be the material I used for the blades in my windmill. I would keep them all the same size but use aluminum, wood, and paper and see if there is any difference in the material used and the rate at which they spin. The final project board that will be displayed at the science fair. The board will have all the above written assignments in one place. See MAKE YOUR BOARD SHEET

5 weeks

2/2812

Conclusions and Future considerations

Display Board And Final Report Meredith Energy Expo

22 days 3/22/12 March 29