Data Collection Charts



Data Collection Charts

The main thing you must be sure of in making your data collection chart is that you have a place to write every piece of information you will collect while experimenting.

• Be sure you have a place to write the data for the five or more trials you will do for each change in your independent variable.

• Have a column on the end that shows the overall results for that change in the independent variable (average or total or ratio, etc.)

• You may carefully make the chart by hand, make a table on Word, use Excel, or another program for making charts. The chart must be neatly constructed, however, if you do it by hand.

Here are two examples, but these may not fit your data. Be creative in making a chart that fits your data. (I used the drop-down “Table” on Word to create these.

|Independent Variables:|Trial 1 |Trial 2 |Trial 3 |Trial 4 |Trial 5 |Average |

|Rain water | | | | | | |

|Distilled water | | | | | | |

|Filtered water | | | | | | |

|Independent Variables:| |Trial1 |Trial 2 |Trial 3 |Trial 4 |Trial 5 |Average |

|Wood |50degree | | | | | | |

| |incline | | | | | | |

| |30degree | | | | | | |

| |incline | | | | | | |

| |10degree | | | | | | |

| |incline | | | | | | |

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|Carpet |50degree | | | | | | |

| |incline | | | | | | |

| |30degree | | | | | | |

| |incline | | | | | | |

| |10degree | | | | | | |

| |incline | | | | | | |

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|Tile |50degree | | | | | | |

| |Incline | | | | | | |

| |30degree | | | | | | |

| |incline | | | | | | |

| |10degree | | | | | | |

| |incline | | | | | | |

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