IA BIO Personal Engagement and Exploration Template

  1. Name

Title of Experiment

  1. Personal Engagement ( a brief statement, 1-2 sentences, showing why topic was chosen relating to self):
  1. Safety Precautions, Ethical or environmental issues (Record any relevant issues related to methodology):
  1. Introduction

A)Focused Research Question- BE DETAILED AND SPECIFIC!!

B)Background/ Research

What do I already know about the topic of the experiment (any prior knowledge and or reference to text or other resource material)? You may need more room for this. (Should connect to personal engagement)

C) Hypothesis

Make a prediction on what you expect the outcome of the experiment will be.

Explain why you expect this result? This should be based on the research that you have done into the topic.

  1. Investigation Methodology: Identifying Variables

A) Independent Variable (this is the variable you change or manipulate)

State your independent variable (must be quantitative).

What are the units of measure for your independent variable?

What are the settings/treatments you are using for this experiment? (Should have at least 5 settings)

Why/How did you select these settings?

How will you obtain/measure this?

B) Dependent Variable (this is the resulting outcome of your settings or what you measure at the end of the experiment)

State your dependent variable (must be quantitative).

What are the units of measure for your dependent variable?

How will you obtain the measurements for this variable?

C) Fixed/controlled Variables- Identify all (these are the factors that could impact your results if not kept the same throughout the experiment) You many have more than the four spaces given!!

State your Fixed Variables with units

  1. Variable 1
  1. Variable 2
  1. Variable 3
  1. Variable 4

Explain why it is important to keep each of the identified fixed variables the same

  1. Variable 1
  1. Variable 2
  1. Variable 3
  1. Variable 4

How did you ensure/measure that the variables were the same throughout the testing?

  1. Variable 1
  1. Variable 2
  1. Variable 3
  1. Variable 4
  1. Procedure

A)List Necessary Equipment

B)Illustration of Experiment Layout (picture, diagram, screen shot, etc.)

C)Step by Step Method Used (written in third person and could be repeated by another person) You will need a lot more space than this!!, attach another piece of paper.