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How to Make an Investigatory Project Report

An investigatory project is a science project with an experimental element. In the project write up, report your original hypothesis, experimental method, findings and areas available for further study. The point of the project report is two-fold. First, you must express the scientific question you were investigating and the answer you found. Second, you must explain the design and method of the experiment clearly enough that another scientist could replicate your results using only the report for reference.

Instructions

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  Write your experimental hypothesis. The hypothesis expresses the relationship you expect to find between two factors in a scientific process. For example, your hypothesis may be that plants that receive more water will grow more quickly than plants that receive less water. In this case the two factors are volume of water and speed of growth.
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  Record the apparatus you used in your experimental design. Be sure to state specifically which types and quantities of each item you used. Give enough detail that someone else could replicate every relevant factor in the experiment.
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  Describe the experimental method you developed, including both the theory behind it and the specific steps of your experiment. For the theory, include which variable you systematically altered and how you measured the results, in addition to what steps you took to keep the other variables constant. For the method, write clear step-by-step instructions about how you set up the apparatus, carried out the processes of the experiment and measured the results.
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  Write the conclusion of your experiment in terms of the original hypothesis. Include whether the hypothesis was right or wrong (or if the experiment was inconclusive) and provide data you gathered in the experiment to back your findings up. Finish by describing ways you would improve the experiment if you performed it again in the future, and related areas of study remaining for others to explore.

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