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Science fair projects provide opportunities to collaborate with many teachers, especially in Math and English, and implement cross-curriculum, or team leadership and cooperation. A science fair project allows you to pose your own question and answer it.
The scientific method is a way to ask and answer scientific questions by making observations and doing experiments. The steps of the scientific method are to: Ask a Question. Do Background Research. Construct a Hypothesis. Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment . Analyze Your Data and Draw a Conclusion . Communicate Your Results.
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What Is a Science Fair? Every spring, thousands of students in grades 5–12 prepare science fair projects for competitions held by school districts, counties, and states. These fairs are public exhibitions of the students’ projects to recognize their work and to stimu-late interest in science.
- How to Use The Stemium Science Fair Project Ultimate Guide?
- Getting Started – Why Do A Science Fair Project
- What’s The Scientific Method?
- What Science Fair Project Should I do?
- Starting Your Project: Find A Testable Question
- Outline Your Science Project – What Steps Should I take?
- Experiment – Time to Test That Hypothesis
- Analyze Results – Make Conclusions
- Presentation Time – Set Up Your Board, Practice Your Talk
If you are just starting off and this is your first science fair, here’s how to get started: 1. Start with the STEMium Science Fair Project Roadmap. This is an infographic that “maps” out the process from start to finish and shows all the steps in a visual format. 2. Getting Started – Why Do a Science Fair Project. Besides walking through some reas...
For many students, participating in the science fair might be a choice that was made FOR you. In other words, something you must do as part of a class. Maybe your parents are making you do it. For others, maybe it sounded like a cool idea. Something fun to try. Whatever your motivation, there are a lot of great reasons to do a science fair project....
Before we jump into your project, it’s important to introduce a key concept: The Scientific Method. The scientific method is the framework scientists use to answer their questions and test their hypothesis. The figure below illustrates the steps you’ll take to get to the end, but it starts with asking a question (you’ve already finished the first s...
We won’t sugar coat it… in our experience, this is the hardest part. One thing to keep in mind: coming up with ideas is the hardest part of life, not just science fairs. Think about it. Whenever you’re with a group of people and you try to come up with something to do, somewhere to eat, there’s usually that awkward pause/silence followed by “I don’...
The best experiments start with a question. Taking that a step further, the questions you useyou’re your science fair project should be ones that are TESTABLE. That means something you can measure. Let’s look at an example. Let’s say I’m super excited about baking. OH YEA!! I love baking. Specifically, baking cakes. In fact, I love baking cakes so ...
Congratulations! If you’ve made it this far you’ve got an idea. Since that’s one of the toughest hurdles, pat yourself on the back. You also know all about the scientific method. You probably also have a testable question. You’re on a roll!!Now let’s move on to shaping out what our project will cover – and what we actually have to DO to finish our ...
Way to go! You’ve found a problem and identified a testable question. You’ve done background research and even created a hypothesis. It’s time to put it all together now and start designing your experiment. Two experiments we have outlined in detail – germiest spot in school and alka-seltzer rockets– help show how to set up experiments to test vari...
Analyzing means adding up our results and putting them into pretty pictures. Use charts and graphs whenever you can. In our last coin flipping example, you’d want to include bar charts of the number of heads and tails at different temperatures. If you’re doing some other type of experiment, take pictures during the different steps to document every...
Personally, the presentation is my favorite part! First, you get to show off all your hard work and look back at everything you did! Additionally, science fair rules should outline the specific sections that need to be in the report, and in the poster board – so, be like Emmett from Lego Movie and read the instructions. Here’s a loose overview of w...
1. What is a Science fair Celebration? 2. What is a Science Fair Project? 3. Science Fair Journey – To the Student 4. Project Categories and Three Major Types of Projects 5. A Summary of the 12 major steps in Preparing a Successful Science Fair Project 6. Scientific Method and Variables and Controls 7. Three Written Materials (Requirements) 8.
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Science fair projects introduce students to a process for acquiring knowledge that they can transfer to any subject. Give students the opportunity to communicate what they have learned to others.
