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Scientific Method Writing Assignment

This assignment is a 6 part assignment that entails students working on each step of the scientific method: Questioning, hypothesis, experiment (research), results (analyze), conclusion, theory. Before students begin the process they will identify key topics of focus (broad focus)

Parts: **1.** Questioning: students will take the broad topic that they picked and begin to list the various questions that pertain to their topics. Students will list at least 20 questions and begin to categorize questions into 4-6 categories. **2.** Hypothesis: Based on all the categories students will create several hypothesis for each categories. Students will ultimately take their questions and pick a category that they will focus on thus finalizing their Hypothesis. **3.** Experiments (Research): students will find several experiments or research papers and summarize the results of each. Key questions will be assigned that need to be addressed for each research article/paper. (5-10 articles) **4.** Results (analyze): Students will take the research they found and list the key ideas that pertain to each article. **5.** Conclusion: Students will write an essay that summarizes the connection between the results of the articles and their hypothesis. **6.** Theory: Students will list the other theories identified during the process, including listing what are other questions that may need to be asked. Final part of assignment will be to place all items in order, correcting any mistakes or suggestions that need to be done for final project grade.

**__Grade points:__** **__Due Dates__** Part 1 -100 Feb 25th Part 2 - 50 Mar 4th Part 3 -200 Apr 1st Part 4 - Combined with Part 3 Part 5 -200 Apr 15th :Date Change in class activity-April 18th Part 6 - 50 Apr 22nd ﻿:Date Change April 25th. Final -200 (Rubric will be provided) To be determined


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