Science Writing Activity

Teacher Note

Would you like to publish your science experiments? This interactive page will help you and other students in your class create a report about the scientific investigations you are doing in your class. When you are done you can print your report and/or post it for other classes to see your work.

Topic of Investigation	Enter the content area you are investigating such as "seed growth", "soil experiments" or "backyard watch".
First Name(s)	Enter your first name(s) only. You should never send your last name anywhere on the internet without permission from your teacher.
Questions	Write a list of questions you want to answer by doing your investigation.
Hypothesis	Write a hypothesis based on your questions.
What did you do?	Provide a detailed explanation of what you did. Write in paragraph form and in the past tense. Assume that the reader knows nothing at all about your investigation. Write everything you did so that someone else could do the same experiment exactly the same way that you did. Check this box to leave room to draw a picture
What did you notice?	Write all measurements and observations that you made during your investigation. Include anything that you think might be important. Sometimes data is reported in a table. You can draw a table, or use a word processor or a spreadsheet program to create a table. Check this box to leave room to insert a table or picture.
What did you find out?	All calculations (even simple additions and subtractions of data), graphs, manipulations, and interpretations of data are results.
Answers to Questions	What answers did you find to the questions you had at the beginning of the experiment?
More Questions	Think about everyting that happened in your investigation. Why do you think these things happened? What things happened that you didn't expect? What new questions do you have? Check this box to leave room to insert a table or picture.
Conclusion	Write a paragraph describing what you learned from doing this investigation. Check this box to leave room to insert a table or picture.