Abe's Repository of Research Resources
Choosing a Research Topic
- CHS Library's Research Databases: great place to find articles on a variety of topics
- Science Daily: source for latest research news
- How to Read Scientific Articles video (length 5:03)
- Mark It Up worksheet: how to annotate scientific articles
- Mark It Up 2 worksheet
Designing an Experiment
- Ethical Considerations: when using human subjects or bacteria
- Ethical Considerations: when using vertebrate animals
- Project Proposal Form: submit for approval
- Research Design Table worksheet: helps organize all components of a controlled experiment
- Research Grant Application
- Final Project Approval Signature form: Before experimentation can begin, each student, parents, and a teacher must sign off to give approval.
- Work Session Sign Ups: form to sign up for a work session at CHS with teacher supervision
- Work Session Sign In: form to sign in when arriving at a scheduled work session at CHS
- Data Check: form used to submit data collected
Collaborating in Groups
- Sample Team Norms article from the balance careers
- Team Assignment #1: worksheet establishing main research question, subquestions under three literature review sections, and team norms to be followed during the research project.
- Scrum Framework Overview video (length: 2:21)
- Scrum Guide online
Statistics in Science
- Statistics in Science by Bozeman Biology
- Standard Deviation by Bozeman Biology
- Standard Deviation practice worksheet
- Class Data for Statistics: Google form for submitting personal data
- Student's t-test by Bozeman Biology with an example data set on Excel spreadsheet to practice calculating t-test
- T-test article with different types of t-tests and an online calculator
- T-test in Excel: video showing how to use Excel to calculate a t-test
- Pearson's Correlation Coefficient by Maths Tutorial
- Calculating Pearson's Correlation Coefficient through multiple methods
- Correlation and Causation by Khan Academy
- Chi-square test by Bozeman Science
- Chi-square by Crash Course Statistics
- Fortune Cookies Chi Square Test worksheet for in class activity
- Chick Weight Google spreadsheet: save a copy on your drive to analyze/manipulate.
- Chick Weight worksheet
- Statistics and Graphing video playlist by Bozeman Biology (6 videos, average length: 7:00)
Writing the Research Paper
- Writing the Lit Review video by University of Maryland University College (length 5:21)
- Writing the Lit Review video (part 2) by University of Maryland University College (length 7:40)
- Writing the Lit Review
- Developing Background Research Questions worksheet
- Taking Notes on Research worksheet to help organize thoughts for each source or use Noodle Tools to make digital notecards
- Bibliography worksheet or use Noodle Tools
- Sample Literature Review with annotations
- Peer Review questions and prompts for the literature review section only
- Literature Review Rubric: used by Mr. Greene to grade lit reviews
- Writing the Materials and Methods
- Materials and Methods: another how to article with samples
- Samples of Materials and Methods section
- Writing the Results
- Organizing the Results by Sacred Heart University Library
- Guide to Graphing Data video by Bozeman Biology (length 10:37)
- Sample Results sections from senior MST students
- Writing the Discussion
- How to Write Discussion with examples
- Sample Discussion sections from senior MST students
- Writing the Conclusion
- Conclusions by the Writing Center with some examples
- Writing the Abstract
- Final Paper Rubric: used by Abe to grade the rest of the paper
- Sample Paper 1 from medical research
- Sample Paper 2 from engineering research
- Peer Review Worksheet for final paper
- Rewriting the Paper Guidelines for when you want to make up missed points
- Plagiarism by The Writing Center of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Plagiarism Tutorials and Test by Indiana University
- APA Formatting Guide website by Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Creating the Research Poster
- How to Create the Poster in Powerpoint worksheet
- Other Items to Consider when creating your poster
- Sample Research Poster
- Poster Rubric