This directory is intended to help students six through eight with their science fair project. Students can learn about the process of the science fair, including the scientific process, browse for topics they would like to pursue, research their topic, and find experiments that could be good projects.
Teachers can also use this directory when teaching students the skills they need for the science fair. While students are researching, teachers can use this as a starting point to help students find information.
Parents can also view this site as a tool to help their students successfully complete their project.
| Science Fair Toolkit Micro Libraries’ site goes through the complete process of a science fair project from choosing a topic and collecting information, to coming up with a hypothesis and writing the research paper. There are even links on tips for the day of the science fair itself. The links are annotated which helps you quickly find the information you want and need. |
| The WWW Virtual Library: Science Fairs The Maine Middle School Science Fair page, hosted by GeoCities is indexed here. While in the Maine page, you can read about the rules of the fair, the judging standards, the research paper, and the steps or procedure required for a successful project. There are also links that will help you with your research paper. |
| Science Fair Project on the Web There are several reasons for browsing through this site. It contains the steps of a science fair project, the scientific method, science – defined, which explains about processes of science, judging sheet examples, and teacher resources. The right hand sidebar contains science fair project ideas. The ideas are broken down into elementary projects, intermediate projects, and senior projects. There are also “hundreds of ideas” listed. This is a great place to start if you are unsure of your topic. |
| Your Science Fair Project Resource Guide: Science Fair Research Project HELP! Whether you need help with the scientific method, suggestions for topics, or resources to get started on your research, this site provides many links and advice on how to move through the process. This site is especially helpful for choosing a topic because it gives an annotated list of eight websites you can browse that will help you focus your search. The Internet Public Library produces this site. |
| Bill Nye.com Bill Nye’s site has a section called home demos. For a science project, you can choose one and research its big idea. Another good use for this site is to start a web search from this page. You can choose from Life Science, Physical Science, and Planetary Science, on specific topics within those subjects. You will then be given a list of websites dealing with that specific topic. The articles are easy to read and incredibly informative. |
| Energy & Science Projects The California Energy Commission’s Energy Quest site is designed to educate people on the types and uses of energy. One section of this site is dedicated to science fair projects dealing with energy. It lists ideas for experiment-based- projects on topics such as electricity, hydropower, and wind power. For each of the suggested experiments, there is an overview of what the experiment is about, the materials needed to complete the experiment, the procedure, and what expected outcomes should be. Also, you will be provided with information that will be useful in your research for the topic. In addition, at the bottom of the page, there are links to other science project sites. |
| Eric Weisstein’s Treasure Trove of Science If you are researching astronomy, chemistry, cellular life, or physics, this site will help you. Click on the needed topic on the sidebar and you will be directed to another similar page with many more sub-topics. For example, when you choose physics, you will find astrophysics, electromagnetism, experimental physics, fluid mechanics, states of matter, thermodynamics, wave motion, and more. Eric Weisstein and Wolfram Research, Inc. produces this site. |
| Science Fair Central Dicovery.com uses Janice Van Cleave’s Guide to the Best Science Fair Projects. There are three sections to this site: one for students, another for teachers and finally one for parents. The student section features a handbook for the steps on doing a project, a project idea page, and links and books for research. Some of the books can be found in our local libraries. The links are on the topics of astronomy, biology, chemistry, Earth sciences, math, physics, and general science. Each of these links brings you to Kathy Schrock's page dealing with each of those topics. |
| Kathy Schrock’s Subject Access Page on Science, Computing and Technology. Kathy Schrock’s page is a huge listing of the topics in science. This is a wonderful page to visit for research information. |
| The Ultimate Science Fair Resource This source could be located in all of the categories listed here. It gives project steps, hints, writing instructions, topic ideas and research starting points. The strength of this site is its research starting points. For biology, chemistry, computer science, geology, physics, and psychology there are endless sites to research. The sites are excellent resources to check before going onto a search engine search. Scifair.org and John W. Gudenas, PhD together have produced an extensive site. |