Observation: information skills

1. Choose topic: read, write, and think about questions to answer.
2. Narrow topic for study and research.
3. Read and take notes about your topic.
4. Ask a question, pose a problem to be solved, or suggest a possible pattern.

Interpretation: reasoning skills

5. Propose an answer to your question, a solution to the problem or a prediction.
6. Design a result table: To focus on the real question being asked and identify observations to be measured.

Experimentation: process skills

7. Design your experiment: materials and method. Don't forget Repetition and control!
8. Conduct your experiment

Complete the process

9. Record results: observation skills
10. Analyze results: interpretation skills
11. Conclusion and proposal for further experimentation.

Report your research

12. Introduction: State the problem or question and the hypothesis, explain your topic, what others already knew, and why this is important to know.
13. Materials and method: Describe the materials in your experiment and what you did in detail so that someone else can repeat the experiment.
14. Results: Report your results in an easy to understand chart or table. Use descriptive labels on charts and include a written explanation of each chart.
15. Conclusion: Explain why your results lead you to a conclusion and how it compares with other findings and conclusions. Propose further experiment to be done and the significance of your findings.
16. Bibliography: Cite five printed sources in correct reference format.
17. Abstract: Write a concise, one paragraph explanation of what you discovered and how you discovered it.