Nowadays high schools emphasize on research project work for almost all subjects. These projects are compulsory and are assessed for topic, content, research work, conclusion, reference work and most important of all is the overall presentation of the project in written format.
Student is often assigned topics by teachers and has very little option to change. The actual preparation must begin once the student gets the topic. The topic itself might appear confusing. But often the basic idea behind the topic is very simple. So first of all find the focus area of the work. This is easy in science projects. One needs to identify the process that needs to be followed. Research plan in advance helps one to keep focused. For example the project could be: Observing photosynthesis in plants. For this one needs to know, what is photosynthesis? What teacher expects the student to learn? What experiment can be done to actually observe the phenomena? How the experiment can be set up? What parameters can be measured? How to put together the data? What can be the conclusions and inferences drawn from the experiment?
