Prac report

• Aim: begins with 'to' followed by a verb, present tense
• Hypothesis: An educated guess about what will happen, 'if' and 'then' structure, present tense, includes IV and DV
• DV: variable that can be measured, depends on the IV
• IV: variable that you can change in the experiment, is the cause of the DV
• CV: kept the same throughout the experiment, must include at least 2
• Material list: must be in dot points, quantity mentioned
• Method: must be numbered, past tense, begins with 'the' followed by noun and then verb
• Results: cannot be drawn by hand, table format
• Graph: pick graph based on experiment, labelled, titles, IV and DV included
• Discussion: explain results, compare to other experiments, limitations, future research
• Conclusion: summarise findings, state if hypothesis was accepted or rejected
• Conclusion: summarise findings, state hypothesis, discuss implications
• hazard list: a list of hazards that may be present in an experiment, dot points, errors as well, explain these in the method and how they were managed
• when putting a caption always mention the connection between the iv and dv, don't make it too long, usually can be the same as the title of the graph
• iv goes on the x axis
• dv goes on the y axis
• equal intervals on both axis
• for hypothesis, sentence starter: 'it is hypothesized that...' and 'if...then'
• make sure to be exact when mentioning quantitites
• caption should be under the graph
• results table also needs a caption
• graph title should not be a ?
• when iv and dv are both numbers, use a line graph
• when either iv or dv is not a number then use bar graph