Experiment Procedure

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Writing your Experimental Procedure:

By now you have done your background research on your subject to ensure that you thoroughly understand your subject. When you write up your experiment, remember to write every little detail down. For example, if you are pouring liquids into containers to check their freezing temperatures:

1-Place the identical plastic containers on the table.
2-Remove the container lids.
3-Measure out exactly 1 cup of water from the tap.
4-Record the water temperature.
5-Pour the water into the first container.
6-Measure out exactly 1 cup of olive oil.
7- Pour the olive oil into the second container.
8-Record the olive oil temperature.
9-Place the lids securely on the plastic containers.
10-Place each container in the freezer.
11-Record the freezer temperature.
12-etc.

Remember that your experiment steps are written out before you do your experiment. You need to include EVERY SINGLE THING you will be doing. Depending on how complicated your experiment will be, you will have anywhere from 10 to 100 steps in your procedure. The judges will be looking for completeness and thoroughness. You cannot have too many steps in your experimental procedures. For example, we could have put in the steps:

Remove the cap from the olive oil jar.
Open the freezer door

Get the idea?

Please read the attached to ensure you have materials/procedure complete: Materials and Procedure and/or go to the site and go down to the "Testing your Hypothesis" section.

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