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How To Rock The Paper Rubric
Introduce your essential question clearly
Do lots of detailed background research about your topic/question and develop an answer
State a thesis
Develop a narrower question that you can answer with an experiment
State a hypothesis

Develop a clear plan to test your hypothesis
Write out your clear plan
Think about as many of the variables that you can
What you’re changing
What you’re measuring
What you’re controlling

Run your experiment and gather data
After your (first) trial, think about how your experiment went
Were there problems? Inconsistencies in what you did?
Revise your design and
do your experiment again
write about how the data would be altered by the changes that you made

Gather your data into clear tables
Make graphs if possible/useful
Analyze your data, which means . . .
Look for patterns (over time, between groups, etc)
Look for changes (over time, between groups, etc)
Write about what your data means
What conclusions can you draw?
SUPPORT YOUR CONCLUSIONS WITH CLEAR REFERENCES TO THE DATA

Reflect on your hypothesis
Was it supported? Was it refuted? Explain why. REFER TO THE DATA.
Reflect on the data
Did the data meet your expectations? Explain.
Reflect on sources of error
How did a source of error affect your data? Did it increase ________? Decrease it? Why?

Discuss what would happen if changed a variable
For example, if you
Gave the plant more light
Changed the temperature
Increased the amount of water

Finishing up
PROOFREAD
Make sure you have a logical flow of ideas
Background --> Questions --> Thesis/Hypothesis --> Experimental Design --> Data --> Analysis of Data --> Conclusions --> Reflection
Include an APA formatted bibliography

How To Rock The Presentation Rubric
In BRIEF,
KNOW YOUR STUFF
Your background, your experiment, your data, and the reasons why did things
Be ready to answer questions about what you did in the experiment and why
Discuss the significance of your experiment/the topic