Q: If you’re writing an article for work or for school, make sure that you understand your task. Take a few minutes to check in with the person in charge to ask any questions that you have. Do this before you start writing so that you don’t have to redo any of your work.  Maybe your boss has asked you to write an article for the company newsletter. Check to see if there is a certain topic you should write about and how long the article should be. If you’re writing an article for the school paper, ask the editor or supervisor what you should cover. They might want you to write about the library renovations or write a feature about new students. Always stick to any guidelines that you’re given. It will make you look competent and responsible. If you’re a blogger or a freelance writer, you might be responsible for coming up with your own content. To find a good topic, think about your audience. For example, if you’re writing a cooking blog, you’ll want to stick to food-related topics.  Do some free-thinking. Just jot down any thoughts that come to mind. You can weed out the bad ideas later! For your cooking blog, you might scribble down words like “keto,” “blenders,” or “holiday meals.” Once you choose a topic, start making it more specific. For example, if you decide to write about holiday meals, you can narrow that down by choosing a specific holiday or season that you want to write about. You might decide to write about updated Thanksgiving classics. Spend some time looking up information online about whatever you’re writing about. You could also check your local library to see if there are good books on the subject. Depending on what type of article you’re writing, you might need to do some additional research.  If you’re writing about a person or doing a news article, it’s a good idea to interview some people. When you do an interview, prepare a list of questions ahead of time so that you don't forget any important questions. Be on time and be respectful. Take good notes or record the conversation so that you can accurately quote the person. For your article about Thanksgiving dishes, you might talk to some friends to see what they like to eat. You could also look up some food safety facts so that you can give sound advice about properly cooking a turkey. To make your article sound authoritative, you should choose sources that are accurate, current, and unbiased. If you're looking at sources online, check to see if you can find an author's name and the date the page was last updated. If you can't find an author, it might be better to use a different source. An exception would be a wiki, which has multiple authors. If that's the case, just check to see if they used outside sources to back up the facts.  Depending on the subject of your article, your source should be a few months to a few years old. Up to date information is typically the most accurate. For example, if you're writing about new trends for Thanksgiving appetizers, you probably don't want to look at a cookbook from 1975. Keep all of your information well-organized so that you can easily access it once you start writing. You can choose whatever note-taking system works for you. Maybe you’re a pen and paper person. Alternatively, you could take notes on your phone or computer. You can even leave yourself voice memos.  Take care to record all the important details. That means any names, dates, facts, or statistics. Don’t forget to write down your source, too! Keep your notes in a file on your computer or use an app on your phone to keep them organized. If you take notes on paper, keep them in a file folder so that you can easily access them.
A: Ask your boss or teacher for guidelines. Make a list of ideas if you’re working independently. Research the topic to make sure you’re informed. Choose reliable sources. Take notes to keep your ideas organized.

Q: Any of the projects below can be used as fun demonstrations that can be explained by science. If you want to turn them into actual science experiments that test an idea, follow the included advice to try out several versions of them, record your results, and try to figure out how they work. You can find out more about the process in the experiment section below. reate patterns in milk. Pour milk into a bowl. Squeeze a drop each of different colored food coloring onto the milk without stirring. Dip a cotton bud into liquid dishwashing soap, and touch the end of the cotton bud onto the surface of the milk. Watch what happens to the colors. Turn this into an experiment by adding additional soap, one cotton bud at a time. At what point does the color become stable? reate a bouncing egg. Leave an egg in a jar of white vinegar for a full week. Put on gloves before handling it, then remove it and try bouncing it gently outside. To turn this into an experiment, soak a dozen eggs in separate jars of vinegar. Every day, take out one egg and try to bounce it outside. Drop it from one inch high (2.5 cm), then two inches (5 cm), and so on, until the egg breaks. Record how much "bouncier" the eggs get as they are left in vinegar. For another experiment, boil the eggs for different amounts of time before letting them cool and putting them in vinegar. Label each jar with the number of seconds the egg inside was boiled. . Mix salt or sugar into a jar of hot water, then suspend a string in the water by tying it to a pencil resting over the jar. Leave the jar alone for a couple days, and see what happens. To turn this into an experiment, fill several jars, and use a different type of salt or sugar in each. Find out how table salt, sea salt, rock salt, Epsom salts, white sugar, powdered sugar, and brown sugar change the crystal growth pattern. . Mix one spoonful of water into two spoonfuls of corn starch, then try to pick it up with your hands. This bizarre material, named after a Dr. Suess book, doesn't act like a liquid or a solid. Finding out more about these "non-Newtonian fluids" can require advanced math, but you might be able to figure out some of the "rules" that describe how it behaves. . There are countless fun experiments you can do in your house or backyard. Look through wikiHow's Science for Kids category for a ton of ideas. As long as your teacher allows it, you can try some edible experiments, as well! For example, if your parents have a freeze dryer, you can make your own freeze dried or "astronaut" ice cream.
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