Writing a Scientific Report Junket Experiment

Topic 1 Send-in task – Unit 3

Writing a scientific report – Junket experiment

Investigating biology

The most important component of a scientific report is the discussion. In this task you will write some sections of a scientific report (title, hypothesis, results and discussion).

Part A Planning your discussion

It is a good idea to plan what you are going to say in your discussion before you write it. Plan your discussion by answering the following questions about the investigation you conducted in Lesson 6.

Discussion planning questions

1. What are the main findings from your study?

2. What evidence from your results supports your findings?

3. Is your hypothesis supported or refuted?

4. What are some possible explanations about why you got those results?

5. What are the implications of your findings?

6. What were the problems and limitations of your experimental method? Remember, if there were problems that you could improve by redoing the experiment, then you are expected to redo the experiment!

7. Do you have any ideas about how the experiment could be improved?

8. Do you have any ideas for further research relating to this investigation?

Senior Biology 1 Topic 1 Send-in task – Unit 3

Part B Writing part of a scientific report

Use the data you collected from the junket experiment to complete the following part report.

Title of the investigation:

Hypothesis:

Results: (including your table of results)

Discussion: Use your answers from Part A of this task. Make sure that you write in sentences, using paragraphs and correct English. Use the following sentence starters to assist you.

From this experiment, I found that … My hypothesis was supported/refuted because … An explanation for these results could be … Some limitations of this experiment were … Some ideas for further research could be …

Senior Biology 2 Topic 1 Send-in task – Unit 3

Senior Biology 3