Name
_____________________________________________ Date________________
1. What is the title of your
research project?
2. What is your research
question? Why is this question significant to environmental or other real-world
issues?
3. Summarize what others have
found out about this question.
4. What species did you use?
5. What sites did you work at
or get your samples from?
6. Summarize your procedures
here.
7. Summarize your data in a
table. Column 1 should have the different levels of your independent variable
(e.g., worms, no worms). Column 2 should list the replicate number for each
level of the independent variable. Column 3 should have the data for your
dependent variable (e.g., CO2 levels
measured). Additional columns may be needed if there were several dependent
variables, to record moisture content or value of blank samples, etc. You will
need to modify the table if your research was not an experiment.
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8. If you had replicates,
determine the average of all replicates for each treatment level.
9. Graph and then summarize
your data. What is your interpretation of the meaning of these results?
10. What conclusions can you
reach? (What did you learn from your research? Can you think of any other
possible explanations for your results?)
11. If you looked into the
research that others may have done on this subject, how do your results agree
or disagree with what they found?
12. If you were to repeat the
research, what would you change in order to learn more about the question you
studied? (Did you come up with any questions you couldn’t answer using your data?
Can you think of a research project that would help to answer these questions?)
13. What might you change to
improve your research design?