Science Fair Proposal

1. What is your hypothesis ?

If a teenage girl is athletic, then she will have a high self esteem.

2. Identify the Dependent , independent, and control variables in your hypothesis?

My dependent will be the the self esteem in all the girls, my independent will be if they are active or inactive, athletic or non athletic. .The control variables are the girl and their ages 14-18.

3. What is the connection between your science fair proposal And your senior project eq?

My senior project topic is self esteem in teenage girls . My science fair experiment will find out one possible answer to why girls have low self esteem.

4. How will you perform this experiment? Include the equipment you plan on using?

I have done research and found that a group of psychologists used the following survey to find if there is a relationship between a girl’s self esteem and how athletic she is:

http://all-science-fair-projects.com/project1131_140_1.html

I will interview 100 random teenage girls and have them fill out the same survey.  I will then analyze the results of this experiment using statistics to see if my results are significant.

5. Which category will your Project be listed under?
Behavior Science