Report Your Results
Making your report a winner!
We are going to give you some very specific instructions on how to write your report.
Your report tells what you did and how you did it.
If you follow step-by-step what you did and say it plainly, your report will be both accurate and easy to do.
If you have access to a computer and can find some help from someone who knows how to use one, you might find your report easier to do.
This is because a computer with a word processor will automatically center and space your report. If the computer has a spreadsheet like Excel or Works or one of a lot of others, you can also make great graphs.
The library has computers you can use, and the librarians will give you a little help to get started.
NOTE: Click here to download a blank template that you can simply type your information on.
If
your browser displays a "password required" dialog box -
simply hit CANCEL and the template will appear. When the
template loads, click on "SAVE" and save it to your
computer.
Some of the web links will also give you great ideas for writing your report.
COVER PAGE
Center all information down the middle of the page
3 inches from the top is the where the first line begins
Name of science class
1 inch lower - teacher's name
1 inch lower - research topic
2 inches lower - student name, double space, followed by full address on the next two lines
1 inch below address - the complete date
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Purpose ......................................................................................put page #
Acknowledgements .....................................................................put page #
Materials and Methods ................................................................put page #
Results ........................................................................................put page #
Conclusions .................................................................................put page #
Bibliography ................................................................................put page #
PURPOSE
What do you plan to do?
What is your hypothesis?
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Identify people or companies or anywhere that helped you to do this project, such as "colleges, etc."
MATERIALS & METHODS
List of materials used and how you assembled them together
Step-by-step details of how you conducted your experiment. Use charts, graphs, photos, art, anything to clarify your thoughts and work.
RESULTS
This is the outcome of your experiment. Also, the data, findings and results. Log of daily work on experiment.
CONCLUSION
Talk about findings and results. Do they agree with your hypothesis? If not, do you see where they disagree? Look at results. Your thoughts here are very important to judges.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Alphabetical listing of all resources
I also brought along a blank disk my brother gave me. We don't have a computer at home, but he had some disks so he let me use one.
Then the librarian helped me create a spreadsheet.
I was so excited to see if I could make the computer spreadsheet look like the paper model I drew. I used the library's
computer to fill it out.
