Write my science fair report

What goes in a science fair report

A science fair report tells the story of your test in six parts, in this order:

• Question. The one thing you wanted to find out.
• Hypothesis. What you thought would happen, and why: “If I change…, then… will…, because…”. Write it before you test.
• Materials and method. What you used, the steps you followed, and what you kept the same so the test was fair.
• Results. Your numbers: the mean at each level, the biggest and the smallest, and how many tries you did.
• Conclusion. Whether your hypothesis was right, partly right or not right, and the numbers that show it.
• Next time. What you would change, or test next.

A report template that fills itself in

Keep a project from Pick my project and Peabody asks how you want to say each part, with three ways to choose from and a 🔊 on every one. Your question, what you changed and what you measured come from your project. The results and the conclusion come from the tries you put in the Graph Maker on this device: no number is made up, and where there isn't one yet, the report leaves a line for you to fill in by hand. Nothing is typed and nothing is sent. The report prints with your project's question as the title and lines for your name and your because, on Letter or A4 paper.

Science fair conclusion example

A good conclusion says whether your hypothesis was right and points straight at your numbers. Here are the three ways the builder offers, for ramp height and toy cars, with a line where your own means go:

• My hypothesis was right. I know because the mean at 1 book high was ______ cm, and at 3 books high it was ______ cm.
• My hypothesis was partly right. The mean at 1 book high was ______ cm and at 3 books high it was ______ cm, but ______
• My hypothesis was not right. I thought how far the car rolls would go up, but the mean at 1 book high was ______ cm and at 3 books high it was ______ cm.

A hypothesis that turns out not right is still a good result: say so plainly and use the numbers. Prefer paper? The conclusion sheet has the same three boxes to tick.

Science fair abstract examples (7th and up)

An abstract is the whole project in one paragraph: the purpose, what you did, what you found and what it means. Society for Science's ISEF rules, which most regional and state fairs follow, set a limit of 250 words for a high-school project's abstract. Those rules also say AI may not write the abstract: it has to be your own work. Peabody's builder uses no AI. It puts the sentences you picked and your own numbers together, counts the words as you go, and leaves room for your own words in the blanks. 67 of Peabody's 118 projects reach 7th grade, and their reports offer an abstract.

Here is what the abstract looks like for paper airplane wing shapes, before the numbers go in:

My question was: Which wing shape flies farthest? If I change the shape of the wings, then how far the plane flies will go up, because ______. I changed the shape of the wings: narrow dart, wide glider and long straight wings. Each time, I measured how far the plane flies (cm). The means (cm) were ______ at narrow dart, ______ at wide glider and ______ at long straight wings. I did ______ tries at each level. My hypothesis was right. I know because the mean at narrow dart was ______ cm, and at long straight wings it was ______ cm.