1. Purpose/Problem - You need to know what the problem is before you can find a solution.

2.  Collect Information - Find out as much as you can about the problem.  What do YOU already know?  What do you need to find out?  Where can you get that information?

3.  Hypothesis - When you are unsure of the answer or solution to a problem and make a educated guess based on what you do know, you have made n hypothesis.  A hypothesis can also be what you think is going to happen.  A hypothesis can be tested.

4.  Procedure/ Experiment - This is the test you develop to determine if your hypothesis was correct.

5.  Results - Wouldn't it be silly to go to all the trouble of designing and running an experiment and then not bother to pay attention to what happens?  You also need to write down what happened so that you don't forget parts or confuse exactly what happened.

6.  Conclusion - This is just a decision about whether your hypothesis was correct.  Your conclusion must be based on and supported by the data from your experiment.  If your hypothesis turns out to be wrong, you can make a new one that is based on what you have learned from the experiment.

7.  Possible Errors - It is important to think about things that might effect your data.