Step One: Getting Started
✔︎ Create a mind map and/or list with initial ideas.
✔︎ Choose your independent and dependent variables.
✔︎ Formulate your research question.
✔︎ Think about the details of your experiment.
✔︎ Test your experiment.
Brainstorm Ideas:
✔︎ I have a mind map and/or a list with my initial ideas.
Create Your Research Question:
✔︎ I have an independent and a dependent variable for my experiment.
✔︎ I wrote a research question connecting these variables.
Think About and Test Your Experiment:
✔︎ I thought about the steps of my experiment based on the research question.
✔︎ I listed the equipment that I need for my experiment.
✔︎ I verified that I have access to all this equipment.
✔︎ I set up the equipment to test my experiment.
✔︎ I collected some data at the lowest value of my independent variable.
✔︎ I collected some data at the highest value of my independent variable.
✔︎ I verified that it is easy to change my independent variable
✔︎ I verified that it is easy to measure my dependent variable
✔︎ I verified that I get a good range of values for my dependent variable
Create Your Research Question:
● Are the variables chosen correctly, given the context of the investigation?
● Is the research question formulated correctly?
Think About and Test Your Experiment:
● Is all necessary equipment available (at school) that is needed to carry out the experiment?
● Does the experiment have the potential to provide sufficient and relevant qualitative and/or quantitative data to carry out data analysis and evaluation?
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