1. For assistance, you can see your teacher supervisor or Mr. Harish Sharma in Room No. 336(Physics lab).  

 

CHECK DATE 
1st Notebook check 29th January 2014

2nd Notebook check 12th March 2014 
FINAL Notebook due date 17th April 2014  

2. In your Notebook, keep ALL the papers that you have turned in regarding your project. You must include your Science Fair Proposal and Written Project Plan.

 

3. Keep your papers in chronological order. Your first pages should be your first ideas, followed by your written statement. The earliest papers should be closest to the front of your Notebook.

 

4. Every day that you do ANYTHING that relates to your project, write it down in your Notebook. This is your Daily Log.

 

For example:

• You go to the hardware store to buy some materials, and find that they don’t have exactly what you want. After discussing this with the person that helps you, you decide that some similar material may work.

• Record a change in the weather, if that is a variable in your experiment. • Write in your Notebook any time you become inspired or discouraged by your project. Give reasons why.

• Record any change in your stated procedure, and give reasons why you changed it.

 

5. Video may be a good source of data, but it is not recommended as a part of your display because of the value of the display equipment (i.e. TV, VCR or laptop to show your video).

 

6. As you perform your experiments, record your data on the data sheets that you have designed. If you find that the data sheets you have designed are not suitable, make adjustments, and record the changes in your Notebook.

 

7. It is suggested that you write a Final Draft Proposal and Written Project Plan for your Final Draft Notebook. You still need to keep the originals in the Notebook.

 

8. Important Note - your Science Fair Notebook should be organized according to the Notebook Grade Sheet. 

 

9. Do check the Notebook Rubric given in the Handbook.

GETTING STARTED What would you do first, after your Proposal and Written Project Plan have been approved? (Get Materials!) Then? (Find a place where you can perform your experiments.) Control VARIABLES! Pay specific attention to them. Let your parents or teacher know what you are planning, so that they can help you brainstorm through difficulties.