Some pictures of my location

 Experimental Design Diagram     

1. State your question:

How does wind speed affect water flow rate?

2. Research to find quality background information on things already known about the relationship between your chosen variables.  Always be thinking in terms of CLAIM, EVIDENCE, REASONING!

Wind speed can push or pull the water in a river, affecting the flow rate. It can also aid in the evaporation of the water.

3. Based on your own background knowledge and your research, make your prediction (What do you think will happen in the experiment.)

1. If______wind speed is pointed own river_______ Then______the river flow rate will increase_______  Because_____the water pushes the surface water________.

4. Create a data table.( not needed yet.  

5.  List 5 (at least!) controlled variables important for this specific experiment.

1. Done in the fall

2. Done in the same river and location on the river

3. Done on a sunday every time

4. Same rocks used for the experiment

5. Done on the afternoon ish.

6. List the materials needed for the experiment.

1. Something that floats(use the same thing every time)

2. Tape measure

3. Stopwatch

4. Notepad.

5. Camera or phone and such

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7. Write out a step-by-step procedure for carrying out the experiment INCLUDING PICTURES/VIDEO!  *Someone should be able to repeat your experiment from your procedure.  

1. Find a unique rock already in the river.

2. Find a noticeable mark at least 20 feet farther down the river.

3. Find something that floats.

4. Get yourself a stopwatch

5. Drop the thing that you found that floated as close to the opposite side of the rock from the river current as possible, and start your stopwatch at the same time

6. When the floaty thing crosses your noticeable mark, stop your stopwatch.

7. Remember that time

8. Get a measuring tape

9. Record the depth and width of the river

10. Calculate the water flow rate by taking the time it took, the distance between your point and the river width x river depth, then calculate it.

11. When you are done with that go get ur phone.

12. Look at your pictures and remember where you took them

13. The go to those same spots and take the pictures again

14. Sit down somewhere comfortable and examine factors like wind speed and temps and such.