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Conducting AgriScience SAE: A Comprehensive Guide to Student Research Projects

This workbook serves as a practical guide for students conducting research projects in AgriScience, focusing on food, agriculture, and natural resources. It outlines the key steps including identifying a research problem, formulating a hypothesis, designing a controlled experiment, collecting data, analyzing results, and reporting findings. Emphasizing the importance of thorough research and scientific methodology, the guide encourages student engagement and provides resources for further inquiry, making it an essential tool for aspiring agricultural scientists.

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Conducting AgriScience SAE: A Comprehensive Guide to Student Research Projects

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  1. How to Conduct an AgriScience SAE The Science Workbook: Student Research Projects in Food - Agriculture - Natural Resources

  2. Identify the Problem(What question do you want answered?) • Narrow enough to investigate • Of interest to researcher • May modify an existing project • Don't worry about title at this point

  3. Formulate Hypothesis(what do you expect? • A statement to be proven or disproved • A scientific guess • Should predict a possible result • Search literature of other related research

  4. Research(hit the library and the internet) • Contact university researchers • National Ag library, http://www.nalusda.Gov. • Use inter-library loan • Use note cards on books, articles, etc. • The science fair project index, scarecrow press, 1983

  5. Design Investigation(how you are going to do this) • Controlled experiment is most common • Use control group & experimental group • Anticipate sources of experimental error • Have adequate subjects in each group • Repeat the experiment 2-3 times • Follow guidelines for care & use of lab animals

  6. Write Proposal(tell your teacher what you are doing) • Write out a statement about the: • Problem • Your hypothesis • What you found in the literature • The design of your experiment • Get feedback from your teacher • Get feedback from university researchers

  7. Collect Data(record your observations) • Record data into prepared tables • Record non-statistical data in notebook • Report data - mean, median, and mode • Standard deviation will show extreme values

  8. Draw Conclusions (what this data means) • Accept or reject your hypothesis • What is relationship of the variables?

  9. Write Report (Becoming a scientific author) • Abstract (condense paper to a one page) • Introduction • Background • Statement of problem • Hypothesis • Experimental design • Analysis (include tables & graphs) • Conclusions • References

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