If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
-- Isaac Newton
Welcome to Mrs. McKinney's Science Page
Science Projects
We are moving right along with our projects now. All students have been asked to select a topic, determine a problem/purpose, and write a research report. The bibliography and hypothesis will be next. Everyone has a short handout showing each part of the project and all the due dates. Please remember you will be required to do a research report before moving on to other steps.
Research
I am sitting at home grading the research and find some common errors that I will discuss here. Your will get your research back and be asked to make corrections for the final project due in December.
First, most of you did not do enough research. You really needed to sit down and go through several websites, as well as some books (like your science book), or magazines, or whatever you could find on your topic. While you were looking at these sources you should have had your log book in front of you and taken notes. If the is not what you did, please gather more information right now and take notes in your log book to add to your report and improve it.
Next the research had to be regular font and margins, double spaced, and a minimum of 2 pages.
Finally, the research had to be on a science topic and written sort of like a mini chapter in a science book. It would not have anything in it about what you plan to do, so the word "I" in your report means that part needs to be taken out.
Partnered projects required double or triple the length of research and was to be written together with the group.
Bibliography
Please go to the link provided called Citation Machine and choose APA. Simple fill out the information asked for and read the directions that tell you how to cut and paste it to your word processing document. Be sure you have at least 5 sources and that you put them in alphabetical order by the first letter in each.
Hypothesis
Must be an if,....then,....because.... statement. We have practiced this in class. The "if" part explains what you plan to do. The "then" part explains what you predict will happen. The "because" part explains why it will happen and should be what you learned in your research report.
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