Step#2: Refining the Topic
DUE DATE: 10/8
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. -Lawrence J. Peters
Now that you have your topic, you will need to focus on a specific feature of that topic. The idea of cause and effect should guide your project and your research. Use the notion:
Example: Topic: Sulfur Requirements of Algae Used for Human Food As the students, you would grow a kind of algae that people use for food. The algae could be grown in solutions that have different amounts or kinds of sulfur. Cause : Some aspect of the sulfur requirement of the algae (the amount or kind). Effect : How well the algae grows. * Create a list of causes or independent variable and effects or dependent variable for your topic. In your project:
Example: Some of the independent variables that could be measured:
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