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Designing Your Question

Designing Your Question. When you are creating your question: . Make sure to think about the items on the checklist Make sure you are testing something: Ask Yourself: what is the experiment that will go with my question. 3. A Demonstration is not an experiment!. Example: Good Question.

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Designing Your Question

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  1. Designing Your Question

  2. When you are creating your question: • Make sure to think about the items on the checklist • Make sure you are testing something: • Ask Yourself: what is the experiment that will go with my question. 3. A Demonstration is not an experiment!

  3. Example: Good Question • How do different dissolved substances affect the evaporation rate of water? • Experiment is dissolving different substances and timing how fast water evaporates • Does the type of shampoo affect how often my dog scratches himself during the day • Experiment is washing dog with different types of shampoos and recording how often he scratches himself

  4. Example: Bad Questions • How can I make a lava lamp? • Making a lava lamp is not an experiment • How do plants grow? • Watching plants grow is not testing anything • What color water grows plants the best? • This is an experiment but it is too easy for your grade level and is not in our topic list.

  5. When making up your question remember you need to have: • Independent Variable: The thing that you will change • Dependent Variable: the thing that will change when you change the independent. If you don’t have an independent and dependent variable, then you don’t have a question!

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