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Which run had the highest rocket altitude? Which purified sample was the cleanest? This is a great place for tables, charts, and graphs that show your results all in one swoop.\u00c2\u00a0 Can you make a graph that a newbie can instantly pick out your results?<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve finalized your data into concrete results, you&#8217;ll need a section for <strong>Conclusions &amp; Recommendations<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 This section basically answers the initial question or hypothesis you had.\u00c2\u00a0 No, more fuel did not result in a higher rocket altitude gain, but if you were to do further experimentation (which is currently out of your scope &#8211; you&#8217;re doing school project, not working for NASA), you&#8217;d test out <em>less <\/em>fuel.\u00c2\u00a0 Extra credit points given for recommendations for further experiments that could be done as a follow-up to your own.<\/p>\n<p>No need to re-invent the wheel!\u00c2\u00a0 <strong>References <\/strong>are the final step to every great book, project, and scientist-in-the-making.\u00c2\u00a0 Take advantage of other people&#8217;s work by standing on the shoulders of giants&#8230; and be sure to give credit where&#8217;s it&#8217;s due!\u00c2\u00a0 This may or may not make it onto your board (depending on how much you relied on outside sources for your work), but have a bibliography (computer-printed) sheet on hand in case you&#8217;re asked.<\/p>\n<p>Well, there you have it &#8211; the best &#8220;Don&#8217;t forget these!&#8221; tips for making a great science fair project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to laser in on the scientific method and make it work for you and your project&#8230; First and foremost, your project must answer a question.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s pretty much the heart of the scientific method&#8230; what question does YOUR project answer?\u00c2\u00a0 Here are a few examples to get you started: Does more fuel result in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fair-project-tips-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedsciencefairprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedsciencefairprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedsciencefairprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedsciencefairprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedsciencefairprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedsciencefairprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedsciencefairprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedsciencefairprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedsciencefairprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedsciencefairprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}