Science fair guide
Present your experiment like a scientist
Your board, your report and your answers to the judges all tell the same story: here's what I asked, here's what I measured, here's what the data says.
Display board layout
Left panel
- Question
- Background research
- Hypothesis
- Variables
Center panel
- Project title
- Photo of your setup
- Graph of results
- Data table
Right panel
- Results in words
- Conclusion
- What I'd improve
- Sources
Report structure
- 1
Title page
Project title, your name, grade and teacher.
- 2
Question
One clear, testable question.
- 3
Background
What you learned before testing, in your own words.
- 4
Hypothesis
If… then… because… — written before you experiment.
- 5
Materials & procedure
Detailed enough for someone else to repeat exactly.
- 6
Results
Your data table plus a graph, with units labelled.
- 7
Conclusion
Was the hypothesis supported? What does the data actually show?
- 8
Improvements
Sources of error and what you'd change next time.
Every project workspace generates this report from your own writing and data, ready to print.
Questions judges ask
- Why did you choose this question?
- What was your independent variable and how did you control the others?
- How many trials did you run, and why that many?
- What does your graph show that a table wouldn't?
- What surprised you about the results?
- If you had another month, what would you test next?
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