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Design Your Own Experiment!

YOUR TASK:​ Design an experiment that you can complete with items found in your house. Start with a simple
question that you can run some tests to try to figure out. See below for some examples. Then you will complete
the following worksheet (or answer the questions on a separate sheet of paper) outlining your experiment and
discussing your results. On the last page of this document, you will see the rubric that will be used to grade this
assignment.

Sample projects/questions to get you thinking, but feel free to come up with your own question. The only
experiments that are off limits are those that put you and your family in physical danger!

- Does bread always land butter side down?

- Are double stuffed Oreos really double stuffed?
- Which color of M&Ms melts faster?
- Are Bounty paper towels more absorbent than generic paper towels?
- Which is the best way of keeping a peeled apple from turning brown?
- Which will fizz out more after 10 shakes, cold soda or room temperature soda?
- Will the type of paper an airplane is made out of affect how long it stays in flight?
- Does adding salt to ice and water slow down, speed up, or not change the rate the ice melts in the
water?
- What type of ball will bounce the highest?

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2. Hypothesis
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3. Independent Variable​ (What I am changing on purpose?)

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4. Dependent Variable​ (What am I measuring that responds to the independent variable?)

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5. Control Variables​ (What needs to stay the same in every trial so I don’t mess up my data?)
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 6. Materials​ (List everything you need)
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7. Procedure​ (Write step by step, in order, what you will do for this experiment – repeatable by someone
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8. Data​: (List all information collected during your experiment. Tables of measurement, graphs
observations, etc.)
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 9. Conclusion​: (What happened? Did your results support your conclusion? What was surprising? What did
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10. If you were to do this same experiment again, what would you change in order to make it better?
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11. New Wonderings related to this particular experiment (Did this experiment make you wonder anything
else? What further questions could you investigate that are related to this experiment?)
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