The Youth Speaks assembly pre-empted any HW.
Period 5 students need to complete the analysis and conclusion portion of drops 1 (RD or FD)
Question: How many drops of water can a penny hold?
Hypothesis: What is your educated guess to answer the question? No wild guesses. You may compare a single drop NEXT to a penny. Do not start the experiment.
Test: Describe how you will conduct the experiment in a sentence or two
Materials: record every item used for data collection.
Procedures: Record step by step directions of how each material is used in your experiment include a diagram that helps to illustrate complex procedures. I expect your rough drafts to be wrong, make sure the student recording your final draft to turn in includes the actual procedures & diagram that you use.
Data table: have room to include ten trials of data collection. Yes, do the experiment ten times, make sure everyone in your group has an opportunity to collect data by doing the experiment at least two times.
Analysis: show an example of how you calculated the average # of drops for the trial you did and create a table that displays the average number of drops on a penny for all the groups doing the experiment this period. Make a bar graph that compares the # of drops for each trial and the average number of drops.
Conclusion: Do not write the questions or simply answer them. Write the conclusion in paragraph format with complete sentences.
Restate your hypothesis and state how/why it was an educated guess?
Did you answer the question? What was the ave. number of drops a penny held?
Do your results compare to the other tables? Explain.
How might observations during data collection be sources of error? How can you redo your experiment to attain more accurate results?
