Deadline for project topic has been postponed to the 21st Feb.
Important information for writing your science fair project hypothesis.
A hypothesis is an educated guess about how things work.
Most of the time a hypothesis is written like this: "If
_____[I do this] _____, then _____[this]_____ will happen." (Fill in the
blanks with the appropriate information from your own experiment.)
Your hypothesis should be something that you can actually
test, what's called a testable hypothesis. In other words, you need to be able
to measure both "what you do" and "what will happen."
Hypotheses Tips
The question comes first. Before you make a hypothesis, you
have to clearly identify the question you are interested in studying.
A hypothesis is a statement, not a question. Your hypothesis
is not the scientific question in your project. The hypothesis is an educated,
testable prediction about what will happen.
Make it clear. A good hypothesis is written in clear and
simple language. Reading your hypothesis should tell a teacher or judge exactly
what you thought was going to happen when you started your project.
Keep the variables in mind. A good hypothesis defines the
variables in easy-to-measure terms, like who the participants are, what changes
during the testing, and what the effect of the changes will be.
Make sure your hypothesis is "testable." To prove
or disprove your hypothesis, you need to be able to do an experiment and take
measurements or make observations to see how two things (your variables) are
related. You should also be able to repeat your experiment over and over again,
if necessary.
To create a "testable" hypothesis make sure you
have done all of these things:
Thought about what experiments you will need to carry out to
do the test?
A sample of the display board will be here for you to model. It could not come up now because of technical issues with the format of the picture. We will fix that and upload it soon,
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