Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Making Connection Lab Report

Assignment: Working in pairs, you must design and conduct a controlled experiment to gather evidence that will determine if a claim is correct. Then, you must write down a lab report that summarizes your investigation. Please, click HERE to download the rubric for this project.

Due day: Friday, March 16.

Total number of points: 100 points.
1.State a problem (10 credits)

2. State a hypothesis (10 credits)

3.Plan the design of your experiment (35 credits)
• Explicit the independent and dependent variables. (10 credits)
• Describe your experimental group in at least four steps. (10 credits)
• Describe your control group in at least four steps. (10 credits)
• List the materials you need to conduct your experiment (5 credits)

4. Conduct your experiment (5 credits)

5. Observation: Data table & Graph (20 credits)
• Record your observation in a data table (10 credits)
• Plot your data in a bar-graph (10 credits)

6. State a conclusion (10 credits)

7. Write the report in proper English (10 Credits)

Note: Be sure your experimental methods will provide enough data upon which to base a valid conclusion. You will have to conduct several trials