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THE TITLE OF YOUR PROJECT OR TOPIC CHOICE GOES 3” FROM THE TOP MARGIN, CENTERED; IF IT IS MORE THAN ONE LINE, THE SECOND LINE SHOULD BE SHORTER

(The title is a work in progress. Give your best idea of your title at this point)

by

Your First and Last Name

Honors Science

Teacher’s Name

Current Date (correct date on title page with each submission)

Literature review

Indent paragraphs 5 spaces. A paragraph has at least 3 sentences. Each paragraph has a topic sentence, supporting sentences and an ending sentence. Write in 3rd person. Do not use the words "you" or "I".

This section should be500-750 words of information related to your topic. See complete directions, hints and tips on how to write this paper from your SSA #2 assignment. ALL corrections from SSA #2 need to be made!!!

Citations should be used instead of any type of footnote or endnote. The citation should be located at the end of a sentence or paragraph and should be in the following form (Author, year). Your paper should be full of citations. Any source that is cited in your paper, should be completing cited in your Reference section.

At the end of your Literature Review, you should briefly introduce your experiment and what you will be testing. Include your hypothesis, IV, DV and explain your control and how you will keep things constant.

MATERIALS

Your final list of materials should go on this page, bulleted, not numbered. You need to be sure all quantities that you give for each material are in metric units, when applicable. Your materials list should be updated from when you submitted your SSA #3- use your teacher’s comments and update as you collect data as well.

PROCEDURES

These should be numbered beginning at 1 and should be extremely detailed. Someone who doesn’t know anything about your experiment should be able to read these and replicate what you did exactly. Think of lab procedures! They should also be updated from your SSA #3.

Results

This is all of your data explained and referenced in charts and tables. You should put your information in graphs using Excel. This section should also discuss data gaps or the problems you encountered during data collection.

CONCLUSIONS

This section should explain what your results section means. You should restate your hypothesis and determine whether or not your data supports your hypothesis. In this section you must also reflect and determine what improvements could be made to continue your research in the future.

REFERENCES

All sources used and cited within your literature review should be included in alphabetical order (NOT numbered). The first line of an entry is NOT indented; the second and all other lines are indented. (See examples below). You must have 5 sources APA style (Fifth Edition).

THE CITATIONS BELOW ARE EXAMPLES. DO NOT INCLUDE IN YOUR PAPER!!!!!

Fine, M. A., & Kurdek, L. A. (1993). Reflections on determining authorship credit and authorship order on faculty-student collaborations. American Psychologist, 48, 1141–1147.

Nicol, A. A. M., & Pexman, P. M. (1999). Presenting your findings: A practical guide for creating tables. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

O'Neil, J. M., & Egan, J. (1992). Men's and women's gender role journeys: Metaphor for healing, transition, and transformation. In B. R. Wainrib (Ed.), Gender issues across the life cycle (pp. 107-123). New York: Springer.

New child vaccine gets funding boost. (2001). Retrieved March 21, 2001, from