Notes

A good science project researches what scientists already know about that topic.

You want to learn about the main concepts of your topic that are important. Specifically you need to understand what factors or conditions can affect your experiment. You should then find out why and how each of these factors or conditions can affect your experiment. This information will be used to form a hypothesis and design the experiment.

Using your own words, record the main idea (perhaps as a question) and then list the details that support that main idea for each paragraph you read. DO NOT PLAGIARIZE or COPY WORD FOR WORD!

You must take at least approximately 1/2 page of notes from each source.

example:

MAIN IDEA	DETAILS
What nutrients does a bean plant need to grow?	Nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, potassium, sulfur, calcium, iron, and magnesium
What does a bean plant need nitrogen for?	Nitrogen is used to make plant proteins. These plant proteins are then used to make the protoplasm in a plant cell. These nitrogen based proteins are also stored as food in the plant’s cells. Nitrogen is also needed to make chlorophyll, amino acids, alkaloids, and some plant hormones. As such, the rate growth of a plant is greatly influenced by the amount of nitrogen available.