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The Final Science Fair Notebook

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1. Correct Notebook: 3 ring, 1 inch notebook.
No advertisements on the outside. A window is fine.
Solid color, preferably: dark blue, black, brown, green

2. Inside: not fastened: pink GSDSF “Project Description Form”
This must be completed. Typed (upper and lower case). Signed by you , your teacher and your parents. It will include your abstract, which is a maximum of 250 word summary of your project containing: a) Problem b) Hypothesis c) Procedures: short, numbered summary d) variables & controls e) Key results f) statement of conclusion. (the abstract can be attached)

3. All necessary GSDSF forms: (Not Fastened)
examples: human subject, vertebrae forms (if you are using animals) tissue forms (teeth) all typed and signed where needed, hazardous forms, etc.

4. THE FASTENED NOTEBOOK: IN ORDER as follows:
Remember: All type is the same FONT/SIZE/COLOR with the exception of your headings. Spacing is 1.5, except single spaced in your graph explanations (under the graphs) and within your bibliography and footnotes.
1. Title page: Title of project, centered, professional appearance/typed. Contains your name, school, teacher, date
2. Acknowledgments: formal thank you to those that helped you with your project.
3. Table of contents: set up notebook and then type in the numbers for pages from this page forward. This is page 1.
4. Background research paper: retyped with corrections. Be sure to number each of these pages
5. Bibliography: MLA format. Alphabetized. Numbered.
6. Statement of the Problem: The title of the project and what you hope to discover
7. Purpose: why this project is important to you
8. Hypothesis: what do you think will happen QUANITATIVE!!
9. Procedures: (the step by step how to do your experiment)
10. Variables/Controls: in outline form/not sentences:
Variable to be changed, variable to be measured, controls.
11. Materials list: EVERYTHING you used!!!!
12. Experimental Results: Presented in titled COMPUTER tables, graphs, photos, raw data, statistics. NO HAND GRAPHS!
Include variables to be measured, and data about the control group
13. Conclusions: 2+ pages if possible , discussing the data first, what your results were, if your hypothesis was accurate or much to your surprise what was different, and why you think that might have occurred.
14. Recommendations: What you have learned, and how you think you could do this experiment BETTER. Make suggestions. Brain storm about how this project was informative, but how you could improve on it!
15. Appendix: Data logs, rough, hand written, just how you recorded you data, or how your questionnaires were done. This is the messy, just as you recorded it during the experiment, data. INCLUDE EVERYTHING!!!You will also be graded on overall neatness so be sure that your hard work is presented in a very professional manner!!! Your composition book with your recorded notes will go into the back pocket of the notebook.