Science Fair Abstracts & Online Graphing Site

Hi there!  I just wanted to share a handout with you that I gave to students today.  The first page has information regarding a website called "Create a Graph," where students can enter in their data from their experiments and it generates the graph for them.  The next couple of pages show the format for the abstract along with several examples.  The abstract is basically a summary that is no more than 250 words that sums up their experiment and the results they observed.

In terms of the graph, students should make sure their "y-axis" has equal intervals (i.e.-5m, 10m, 15m, 20m, etc.)  not random (i.e. - 1m, 4m, 10m, 14m).  One more thing.  Line graphs show a trend over a period of time, and a bar graph involves counting.  We hope to have science fair boards in by the end of this week!

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Science Fair Graph:Abstract