Science Fair Report

This is it! This report will accompany your project board and be handed in for grading after the science fair. The
science fair project is worth 2 test grades because of the amount of time and effort required for a quality science
fair project. As you assemble your report make sure to consider the following: spelling and grammar are
expected to be correct. Please use spell-check! The report should be typed and include the following:

1. A title page. This page is your report’s cover. It should contain an interesting title that reflects the subject
matter of your project. This text should be centered in the middle of the page.

2. A summary. After you have written your report you should write a summary. The summary is an overview of
your project. It states your project title, the purpose of your experiment, your hypothesis, a brief description of
your procedure, and your conclusions. Your summary should be between 250-300 words long. This goes in front of
the rest of the report which is described below.

3. A statement of purpose. The purpose should clearly explain the goal of your project

4. A statement of your hypothesis. Your hypothesis should be a possible answer to your research question based on
the background research you performed. Your should reference your research explaining the basis of your
hypothesis

5. An experiment section. The experiment section of your report should:

A. Identify your variables and controls
1. Manipulated (independent) variable
2. Responding (dependent) variable
3. Controlled variables (all the things you kept the same)
B. Identify your full materials list.
C. Describe your procedure. Your procedure is a detailed list of the steps that you performed throughout
your experiment. A well-written procedure is so detailed that anyone who reads your steps should be able
to follow them and perform the experiment exactly as you did it.
D. Describe your data-collection methods. (how did you measure your responding variable? – be as
specific as possible)

6. A data section. The data section of your report should:

A. Show all of the data that you gathered during your experiment in a data table.
B. Your data should also appear in colorful, neatly labeled graphs, and charts.
The address of a great web site to help in creating a graph is
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx . If you don't know how you can graph your data,
please see your teacher for suggestions.

7. A conclusion. The conclusion section of your report summarizes what you discovered based on your experiment
results. It should restate your hypothesis and tell whether or not your data supports it. This is also a good place to
write any questions that arose from your experimentation and any project extensions that you would like to do in
the future. You should keep your conclusion to one page.

8. Works Cited. This is a complete list of sources that you used during your research. You should have several.
Work should be cited using the correct MLA format – use www.easybib.com

9. Appendices. An appendix can include anything else that you feel would help to explain your project. This is where
you attach your research. It could include diagrams, articles, interviews, additional tables, graphs, charts, or
photos.